Ballots Wrongly Denied in Wash. Gov. Race
Here's a tiny bit of good news on the day Bush's return to office was made irrevocable: It looks like the Democrat will win in Washington's race for governor after all. 561 ballots in heavily-Democratic King County (Seattle, mostly) were incorrectly rejected; the margin for Christine Gregoire out of these ballots should be enough to overcome the 42-vote margin by which she trailed Republican Dino Rossi after the machine recount.
Sadly, this is just another sign of how desperate Democrats are for "good news" right now: We consider holding onto a governor's mansion in a heavily-Democratic state a pleasant surprise.
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Eh, if anything, this governor's race has showed us that Washington's east-west divide between Democrats and Republicans has grown to the extent that Washington is no longer a "heavily-Democratic" state. With the growth of "urban sprawl" in the Puget Sound and western Cascade slopes, "heavily-Democratic" areas have become (with the exception of Seattle itself) merely "so-so Democratic" or "left-leaning."
When the counting, re-counting, re-re-counting, and court appearances are all over and done with, Dems here will have to do some soul-searching as to why they're losing ground. At best, they'll have a Democratic Governor Gregoire with no real mandate. At worst, they'll have Republican Governor Rossi constantly reminding the people of Washington that the Dems were sore losers who attempted to derail the will of the people on a technicality.
- James
And it turns out that those votes don't really matter anyway, because the elections committee has ruled that they cannot be included if they weren't eligible during the original ballot counting. (One of the ballots was by one of the Seattle city council members - he was on NPR yesterday morning and boy, was he mad!)
Leave it to Washington to draw out a race, though.
Elizabeth
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