The two politicians received a rock-star welcome in Portland, but whether young people will vote this time around is still a very big question mark in a seriously close contest.

Independent candidate Bill Hill, a commercial fisherman and educator, embodies the state’s subsistence lifestyle. He wants to take that sensibility to Washington.

Rubin, however, laughed all the way to the bank. After leaving Clinton’s service, he became chairman of the Executive Committee of Citigroup, with total annual compensation of $15 million to $18 ...