Washington 2020: The Calm Before the Drizzle

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I'd be shocked if it were to happen. If he wants a woman there are many better options.

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The first patient to utilize the Death with Dignity law passed away last night - a 66-year-old Sequim woman who had stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

R.I.P.

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Nickels fell further behind... Bag tax is up to 43%. Stupid Seattle.

Hutchison also dropped to 35.92%

I just read that Hutchison served on the board of directors for the anti-evolution "intelligent design" organization, The Discovery Institute.

Good grief! I know she's running for County Executive, a position that deals more with road grades, zoning and budgets rather than hot button social issues, but still--how is someone like that running strong in metro Seattle?

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Nickels fell further behind... Bag tax is up to 43%. Stupid Seattle.

Hutchison also dropped to 35.92%

I just read that Hutchison served on the board of directors for the anti-evolution "intelligent design" organization, The Discovery Institute.

Good grief! I know she's running for County Executive, a position that deals more with road grades, zoning and budgets rather than hot button social issues, but still--how is someone like that running strong in metro Seattle?

Hutchison has the advantage of high name recognition because of her decades-long work as a TV Newscaster.  That is particularly a strong advantage in a multi-candidate primary.  She has deliberately attempted to obscure her extreme right views, a task made easier by the unfortunate passing of that measure which made this race "non-partisan."  The notion that this race is non-partisan is a sham.  Keep in mind that the Democratic vote was split between four candidates in the primary.  She had the Republican vote to herself.

The current results show Hutchison getting 33% of the vote.  Second place Dow Constantine has 27%.  Given she is the sole major Republican in the race against four strong Democratic candidates that is a poor showing.  If she posts similar numbers against Constantine in the general it will be a nuclear blowout.  My guess, however, is that she will pick up the assorted crazies votes as well as a small percentage of Jarrett's and Hunter's and will get 38%-40% in the general election.  That's still a loss by a huge margin.  All of Larry Phillips' votes and a majority of Hunter's and Jarrett's will go to Constantine.

Fair enough. I guess I was overfocusing on the fact she finished first by a healthy margin. Well explained.

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Brad Owen sucks, Part XXV: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2009833043_wes_uhlman_brad_owen_endorse_h.html

LEE HAMILTON?!? One of the greatest foriegn policy minds in congress during the last 20 years, co-chair of the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group, and who endorsed Obama in the primary is backing a hardcore creationist?!? To say nothing of why a retired congressman would get involved in a county exec race from a state 2000 miles from his own?

Must either be a close family friend or...no, I won't go there.

Either way, I fear King County may be on the verge of electing its own NW Washington version of Marilyn Musgrave.

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I'm shocked by how homophobic they're making their campaign. I was expecting more of a "gay people are perfectly fine, it's just that they shouldn't have special status"-type thing and not "gay people aren't normal and will confuse your children".

Its what's in the hearts of the activists running the campaign. They just can't help themselves.

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Is this how Republicans feel about Obama? We think Hutchison is an unqualified crazy closet-creationist, while they think he is an unqualified crazy closet-socialist.

The difference is we're right.

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Contradicting what I just said, here's a Seattle Times article that implies Hutchison is the most likely candidate and may still get in the race: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015562138_cantwell10m.html

Not even a mention of Didier, though that's not too surprising. I doubt his name even crosses through the minds of the King County chattering-class's self-centered bubble.

So Reichert's likely to get a safer seat with redistricting?

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https://twitter.com/JayInslee/status/1164573405753958400

So, no EPA Administrator? Anyway, endorsed. He's a good guy.

Still a possibility I would suppose