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« on: June 07, 2008, 06:50:13 PM »

This thread makes Washington politics seem like the funniest thing since the Three Stooges.
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« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2008, 12:17:11 AM »

More statistics about why this system sucks:

- In 92 out of the 124 races (74%) on the ballot, there is only one or two candidates on the ballot. So the primary is meaningless, but we're still going to spend money and time on it.

- There are 207 candidates for the Legislature this year, as opposed to 233 in 2006. So we get fewer choices.

How many races were there in 2006? There are going to be flaws in the first year of this system. People will get used to it and then elections will become interesting.

The same number of races.

There are always going to be flaws in this system. It sucks.

Perhaps eliminate the primary unless more than two candidates are running?
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2008, 01:49:35 PM »

Washington is weird.
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« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2008, 01:23:29 PM »



Most campaigns try to avoid photos like this. But not Dino!


This thread has been very quiet, which is quite upsetting. Updates coming soon include:

- An engaged couple running against each other for State Legislature
- The Commissioner of Public Lands fondles an employees breast... and none of the papers cover it
- A top recruit of the House Republicans who thinks that global warming "may be a good thing... I like a warmer climate"
- Much, much more!

Fun!
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« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2008, 12:50:39 AM »

I like the title.
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« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2008, 02:48:18 AM »

I'm glad this is more conclusive. Rossi was right with Gregoire for a while, which made me worried the "GOP" gambit was paying off.
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« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2008, 08:18:10 PM »

When's the last time a Democrat won Okanogan County but not Pierce?

1964 Secretary of State, maybe the weirdest modern result I've ever seen.

What was with that?
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« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2008, 12:16:58 AM »

That's bad. Low turnout is the sign of a stable democracy.
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« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2008, 03:36:12 PM »

Wrong colors! Angry
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« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2009, 12:32:27 AM »

Last night I had a dream that I was trying to get to my polling place in dark-fictional-unfamiliar-dream-Tacoma.  I missed a bus and had to run there and got there like 2 minutes too late.  I was a little distraught until the pollworker told me that there was nothing on the ballot.  Literally.  It was a completely blank piece of paper.

I agree with my subconscious.

Why in the hell are there 25 pages about it?
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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2009, 07:01:16 PM »

Why are you making school board predictions? Do you really need elections that badly?
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« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2009, 12:32:39 AM »

I guess I'm just bored of my AP Gov class, probably the least opinionated bunch of teenagers I have ever met...

Going out on a limb here, but the regular Gov class is probably worse.
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« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2009, 06:42:21 PM »

I guess I'm just bored of my AP Gov class, probably the least opinionated bunch of teenagers I have ever met...

Going out on a limb here, but the regular Gov class is probably worse.

yeah, way worse - there isn't a regular gov class.

Your school is weird.
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« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2009, 12:15:04 AM »

Why has Brad Owen been the Lt. Governor for so long?

No Democrat is going to challenge him and the Republicans are incapable of nominating non-joke candidates for the office. And even if they did manage to get a respectable candidate it's very difficult to make the case for throwing out a Lt. Governor. There's nothing you can really attack them on because they don't really do anything.

Owen will be Lt. Governor for the rest of his life if he wants to, and I think that's exactly his plan.

Owen's the shortest serving Democratic Lieutenant Governor in state history. lol.
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« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2010, 01:21:26 AM »

Time to change the thread title.
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« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2010, 12:33:32 AM »

The teabaggers are as genuinely fascist as anything we've got in America.
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« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2010, 12:31:38 PM »

lol rossi
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« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2010, 09:33:54 AM »

A few hardcore supporters + Some limited cash infusion + No actual idea about how a winning campaign is run + No reason to bother anyway = Early yard signs.  It's a pretty safe formula.

That explains the oodles of yard signs here for the Republican candidate for Congress.
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Political Matrix
E: -6.77, S: 0.61

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« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2010, 12:30:07 PM »

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Edit: JESSICA SMEALLLL

This thread is one giant in-joke, isn't it?
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Political Matrix
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« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2010, 10:52:37 AM »

What kind of female name is Jaime?
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Political Matrix
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« Reply #20 on: July 05, 2010, 03:31:16 PM »

What kind of female name is Jaime?

It's a more common name for females than for males.

That's Jamie, not Jaime.

http://www.placesnamed.com/j/a/jaime.asp
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Political Matrix
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« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2010, 06:24:36 PM »

What do you expect from Ann Coulter? This is a serious question.
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« Reply #22 on: November 05, 2010, 01:57:34 AM »

Will we be able to gerrymander Washington? Or do you guys use some sort of awful commission?

In my perfect world, a commission would draw all districts across the Fruited Plain, and try to create as many competitive districts as possible as its metric.

Ideally, it would create sensible districts rather than attempting to create competitive districts.
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« Reply #23 on: November 09, 2010, 08:04:08 PM »

Hey, all you pinko WA commie libs. Does WA make this election a net plus for you, the way you humiliated the jack booted thugs in the promise land in a wave election for them outside this one particular sanctuary of sanity? Just asking. Cheers. Smiley

I like your Colleen Hanabusa picture.  I also like the fact that California may have resisted the GOP wave even more strongly than Washington.

It's not so much that we resisted it as that there simply was no such thing here.q
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« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2011, 05:45:16 PM »

I guess Washington doesn't have any laws on residency, or what?

You only have to live here for a month or so... As one source pointed out, due to our relatively late primary (August), Kucinich would have enough time to lose a primary in Ohio, move here, and live here long enough to register and file as a candidate.

He would of course have to resign his seat to do that.
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