Washington state megathread

[Crumpets]

There's absolutely no way this will end well, and I see pretty much nobody on either side of the Democrat-leftist divide really caring about it except for the very local politicians with no power to actually enact anything.

It's all part of this grand scheme to try to get people to commute by bike, I'm sure. Of course, nobody realizes that Magnolia is surrounded by incredibly steep hills on every side and nobody is going to want their commute home to end with a strenuous workout.

FWIW, I live in Capitol Hill and I care about you guys.  I love walking around Magnolia and looking at all the beautiful houses and old trees and big flowery gardens.  Are y'all still dealing with a rat infestation or did you get that worked out?

As far as I know, it's been fixed. We never really had that many rats in our area and I was kind of surprised to see those headlines at the time. The main pest on my block has always been ants. Also, I had no idea you lived in core Sawantist territory. Kind of explains some of your political views, I suppose.

[Crumpets]

So... Larsen's leftist primary opponent has not conceded and has been catching up on Republican Hazelo in WA-2. He's currently behind around 1,800 votes. No idea if there's enough ballots left to make that up - there are still 14,000 ballots out in Skagit, but I haven't seen a breakdown by CD - but it'd be nice to get another D vs. D election in November.

[Crumpets]

So... Larsen's leftist primary opponent has not conceded and has been catching up on Republican Hazelo in WA-2. He's currently behind around 1,800 votes. No idea if there's enough ballots left to make that up - there are still 14,000 ballots out in Skagit, but I haven't seen a breakdown by CD - but it'd be nice to get another D vs. D election in November.

I don't think it's possible, too bad.

Without conversation devolving back to the argument over CHOP's impact on the electorate, I'm really still surprised by the relative poor performance across the ballot of Ds. The 2018 primary results were pretty indicative of the GE (if anything there was a bit of a drop for Ds). I'm not sure how this year's 53% turnout compares, but that seems pretty solid for a primary.

Thoughts?

Best explanation I have is that it's a combination of 2018 having lots of competitive Dem primaries and 2020 having a lot of competitive Republican primaries plus just still having a lot of non-voters. We can expect probably around a million additional votes to be cast in November, and I have to imagine that, this being Washington, those will probably break at least somewhat disproportionately Dem.

[Crumpets]

https://twitter.com/MountRainierWA/status/1323693768290103297

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Random fact I just learned: Apparently my dad went to high school with Marilyn Strickland. He wasn't in the same year as her and they didn't know each other personally, but he did show me a picture from his yearbook of her as a cheerleader.

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Harrell IN:

https://twitter.com/ericacbarnett/status/1371888155415089152

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Just saw my first Sawant recall ad on TV (pro recall). While it was clearly targeted at moderates to drive turnout and give talking points, rather than convincing undecideds, it also hit her on violating COVID protocols, which is a good "hit them where they seem strongest" line, and not a criticism I remember hearing often against her.

[Crumpets]

My city council race (Seattle District 7) narrowed from Lewis being down by 11 to being down by 7 after the most recent ballot dump. I don't know how much more he'll be able to choose the gap, but that's a decent shift.