Washington state megathread

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

resident washington posters: Do you think Josh Collins has even the slightest possibility of making the top 2?

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

What percentage will Joshua for congress get?

He's running on some random label (Essential Worker's Party IIRC). I think no more than 3-4% of the vote. He imploded with most Leftists after he deactivated all social media for awhile.

yeah even a good portion of rose twitter jumped on him after that, which is both amazing and faith-restoring

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Seattle has ranked choice voting now. Kshama Sawant is more likely to go down now than during the recall.

Last I heard, she is thinking about running for something else. Her base is getting gentrified out, as well.

What exactly is there? If she can't win her district, how could she win something larger?

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

RI, turns out your opponent in the election was another atlas user (who has like a dozen posts, but I found out just now)

won't say who in case they want to remain anonymous, but I think that's a first.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

RI, turns out your opponent in the election was another atlas user (who has like a dozen posts, but I found out just now)

won't say who in case they want to remain anonymous, but I think that's a first.

Yes, he and I have talked about it IRL. We'll be making a post on it in the coming days.

Is this coming?

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

man that LD14 looks ugly though, lol

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

A myriad of moronic endorsements out of the Republican convention. Choosing the not-so-secretly racist Kuehl Pederson over JHB was just the tip of the iceberg. Republicans torpedoed the one OSPI candidate who could've won, Chad Magendanz, who has now dropped out entirely, in favor of anti-mask anti-CRT crusader David Olson, punting an important (nonpartisan!) position that could've been won.

For SoS, there weren't any great candidates, but the convention took down the only candidate with elected experience for... this guy, a man with zero relevant experience at all, but likes to talk about "election integrity" a whole lot. Again, his endorsement meant the other candidates dropped out of the race entirely.

Once again, the GOP went to war with Dan Newhouse, choosing Trump-endorsed NASCAR driver Jerrod Sessler instead by acclamation.

And in the 5th CD, the convention passed over both Rep. Jacquelyn Maycumber (who would be great) and Michael Baumgartner, who would be decent, for Trump admin official Brian Dansel from tiny Ferry County (home of Loren Culp). While he's not the worst, there are clearly candidates superior to him in the race better able to live up to Cathy McMorris Rodger's mantle.

state republicans dont shoot yourself in the foot challenge