Washington state megathread

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For a state as lopsided in partisan and having no term limits there should be no reason to coronate Ferguson.

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Also if Habib didn’t retire and become a priest could he have run?

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Manka Dhingra is running for AG. Lord have mercy.

Raul Garcia has filed for Governor on the Republican side. At least he's a halfway decent option.

What specifically about Dhingra makes her unqualified?

She's not "unqualified" in any narrow sense. I just view her as everything we don't need in an AG. She was the senator pushing the garbage report alleging the police pursuit ban was necessary to save bystander lives, and she's been the key obstacle blocking efforts to fix that policy for multiple sessions. The Seattle Times even endorsed her Republican opponent (very rare!) last year and labeled her as "out of touch" and "intransigent." She'd put Washington's soft-on-crime nonsense into overdrive.

Endorsed

(Sarcasm)
^(Sorta)

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General MacArthur sounds like his namesake when he talks about "socialism" lol

But how serious is Dave Reichert's candidacy? Surely the best anyone in the GOP could do here these days is what 55-45? Isn't he pro-life?

Well, someone in the mold of Kim Wyman or her republican predecessor (Sam Reed) could even win - narrowly. It's another matter how many such politicians remain in Republican party...

The issue is that, nowadays, there may be politicians like this in the Republican Party, but if enough of them exist to overcome a more Trumpy candidate in the blanket primary.

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The WA GOP foolishly endorsed Joe Kent yesterday. Congrats to MGP.

We love to see it

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It’s actually weirdly common for politicians to have opponents with their name. Rep. Ron Estes had a primary challenge from a Ron Estes. Rep. Mike Doyle would have faced against a Republican named Mike Doyle but he lost to Summer Lee. Rep. José Serrano had the same thing in 2004.

My favorite example is a woman changed her name to Carol Moseley Braun allegedly because she thought of Sen. Moseley Braun as a hero, but then tried to run for city council and had her name change reversed.

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It’s actually weirdly common for politicians to have opponents with their name. Rep. Ron Estes had a primary challenge from a Ron Estes. Rep. Mike Doyle would have faced against a Republican named Mike Doyle but he lost to Summer Lee. Rep. José Serrano had the same thing in 2004.

My favorite example is a woman changed her name to Carol Moseley Braun allegedly because she thought of Sen. Moseley Braun as a hero, but then tried to run for city council and had her name change reversed.

Congressman Mike Doyle (D) did not lose to Summer Lee, he retired. Lee won the primary for the open seat and beat Mike Doyle (R) in the general.

Ah your right, my mistake.

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I'm surprised none of the other Bob Caseys ever ran against the main Bob Casey during the decade that was going on in PA.

Honestly they might do better then McCormick