Washington 8 Dave Reichert
Dems had a great chance to gain this one in 2004, when it was open, and squandered it. Becoming harder now. Certainly not impossible.
I was rather disappointed with the cast of Democratic candidates that were put up for that seat when Jennifer Dunn vacated it -virtually none of them were what one might call rising politicians. I didn't even have to know what they looked like before passing judgment on them as being a particularly mediocre cast of characters. The fact that I don't even remember their names, or other details about them despite the fact I paid relatively close attention to this race should say volumes on how unmemorable they were.
I wonder why the Washington state Democratic Party put up such mediocre characters when they had such a great chance to expand their 6-3 congressional delegation majority to 7 to 2 when the demographics in the 8th district were in their favor, leaving Republicans exiled in Eastern Washington.
