Washington 2020: The Calm Before the Drizzle

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Someone named "Cleaver" has registered under the SalmonYoga Party.

This is officially a joke.

Someone named Thomas Thomas is a Republican candidate in the 24th.  Apparently it's even a real name.  And Will Baker has filed!  Hooray!

There's a local politician around here named Daniel Daniel.

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GQR is one of the major national Democratic pollsters. They usually do campaign internals for Democrats. I would "trust" their polling, except obviously they are an internal pollster and so this is probably not the only poll they've done for the Approve campaign. (Whether the other results are better or worse for R-71 is up for grabs since it definitely makes sense for the Approve R-71 campaigners to want a poll result that shows them ahead but in some danger.)

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http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1605804/KPLU.Local.News/Washington.Gets.$590M.To.Improve.Seattle.To.Portland.Rail.Service

Washington and Oregon received a total of $598 million to help build faster rail in the Seattle-Portland-Vancouver corridor. Washington received $590 of that money (take that Oregon!).

Well, a railroad from Seattle to Portland would be about 97% in Washington, so it makes sense.

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Liquor will be interesting.  It did very well in the affluent exurbs.

Income tax is going to be fairly predictable.  Early preview:  Rich areas hated this.  It was in the 10%-20% range throughout the Medina/Clyde Hill area, parts of Bellevue, and places like Broadmoor.

Candy tax is also interesting.  That's one tax rich people were fine with; parts of Seattle almost passed the repeal.  Doesn't seem like they're necessarily doing a map of that one.

Haven't loked at the Eyman deal yet.

Rich liberals want a costly state, but are unwilling to tax themselves for it, eh?  I guess that makes them as useless as most groups that trim when it comes to public policy versus their self interest.

Those are not liberal places he mentioned. Medina was McCain's strongest town in all of King County, IIRC.