The race between Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) and Dino Rossi (“G.O.P. Party”) remains only slightly clearer than mud today with the release of a new Strategic Vision poll. The poll shows Gregoire leading Rossi by +2% (50% to 48%).
That makes four +2% leads in a row, as Gregoire’s led by +2% in the three previous polls as well: a Washington Poll poll (50% to 48%), a SurveyUSA poll (50% to 48%), and a Strategic Vision poll (49% to 47%).
Before that, Gregoire held a +6.4% (51.4% to 45.0%) lead in the previous Washington Poll poll taken from 18-Oct to 26-Oct.
The recent polling shows Gregoire with a small, but consistent, lead in the weeks leading up to the election:
In fact, Gregoire has led in all eight polls taken since mid-October. The last time Rossi held the lead was in mid-September.
The new Strategic Vision poll also shows Obama leading by +15% (55% to 40%) in the state. (The poll of 800 likely voters was taken between 31-Oct and 02-Nov, and has a margin of error of ±3%.)
It was a foggy. drizzly Saturday morning as the King County poll workers trudged back to the counthouse for the final count of mark sense ballots.
Governor Gregoire’s loss by 35 votes, statewide, had stressed the vote counting system to its core. Exit polling suggested that King County had a higher than expected rate by 0.23% of ballots where voters chose Obama but did not vote for Governor.
Now the question was whether the mark sense machines were accurate enough to deal with this tiny difference in numbers of votes.
The State Democratic Party had done an important experiment, reviewing samples of ballots from King County vs. Yakima. The King County voters tended to use X rather than fill ins the block.
Could this explain the undervote? The only answer was a hand recount of all the ballots in King County!.
I can’t believe the number of anti-Gregoire ads I’m seein’ on the teevee…
Hope the WSRP’s goin’ broke.
Now the truth is available for all to see.
http://www.ibtimes.com/article.....report.htm
@3 Some of their trolls are working overtime tonight. But judging by their posts, that can’t be costing the BIAW much.
Obama workers registering in MULTIPLE STATES to vote. How dare they?? Why does Obama have to cheat in order to win??
The new SurveyUSA poll just released, shows Gregoire to have extended her lead to 52% to 46%.
This is really great news this close to the election. Whats really great is the turn-around in the 18 to 34 year olds. This poll shows her in the lead with 50% to 49%, when the poll of Oct. 28th shows her behind 41% to 58% …this is a huge turn-around. She has also increased her lead with women. Great, great news.
It ain’t over yet, but I sure like where its going.
Hey Ed: You mean after the real report already showed her guilty of ethics violations the false report says she isn’t. You also forgot the report the McCain camp put out themselves.
Yup – if you whitewash it enough it still stinks. Over 36 phone calls about her ex brother in law – that was an major ethical violation and no amount of perfume will make that stink go away. Add that to her expesive clothes that she has but doesn’t “own”. Her trips for her kids paid with state money that were illegal. Palin also was mighty cozy with the succesionist traitors the AIP – giving their keynote speech and attending their conventions.
Her lies about the bridge to nowhere and her complete ignorance of how the senate works, the country works the supreme court decisions, the newspapers and life in general….
Yup – that one report by someone under her control really vindicates her….hahahahahahah.
@6 – got any evidence? Or are you just talking crap?
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Cause he’s going to spend half billion on this race and has been campaigning for the last two years and still can’t close the deal.
The only way he can win is to steal it which he may do.
If on Wednesday you wake up and find it’s Halloween again he won…
Scary, scary,scary.
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Now do you understand what it says, I think not.
“”Gov. Palin is pleased that the “INDEPENDENT investigator for the Personnel Board” has concluded that she acted properly in the reassignment of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan,” her attorney, Thomas Van Flein, said in a statement.
An earlier, separate investigation by the “DEMOCRAT Legislature” found that Palin had abused her office.
Uhhhh. No. That’s not true. Pesky facts getting in the way of propaganda.
Now will this change your mind that Palin is not a good choice?
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http://sarahpalintruthsquad.wo.....omplaints/
What I found remarkable was that the Republican-controlled Alaska legislature was sufficiently troubled by Palin’s conduct that they joined in asking for an independent investigation of her conduct.
Let me repeat that. A Republican-controlled Alaska legislature …. joined in asking for an independent investigation of her conduct.
Palin initially agreed to cooperate with the investigation. Then she was nominated for Vice-President. And suddenly, the word came forth to stonewall the investigation, at least until after the election. An army of Republican operatives, including a large percentage of them lawyers and media consultants, descended on Alaska to brand the bi-partison commission (including a majority of Republicans) as “biased” and “Democratic Controlled”, and sought to have the independent investigation derailed and instead brought before a panel of Palin appointees on the Personnel Board.
Anybody who still tries to sell the lie about the “Democratic Alaska Legislature” either talks without knowing the facts, or knowingly lies.
Of course, Palin is within a few hours of being a footnote in our national history, as one of several reasons which historians will list as to why McCain lost this election. At that point we should be able to forget her for the most part, and leave her future in office in Alaska to be decided by Alaskans.
But having tasted the adoration of the unthinking wingnuts on the right, I’m guessing she won’t run for re-election in 2010, and will instead try a run for President in 2012 – although she will obviously try to find some way to brush up on her credentials in the meantime. There are plenty of wingnuts who will encourage her to do so.
But the sad part is, that she really does think she is already ready to govern the highest office in the United States. But that’s only because she knows so little, she doesn’t know how little she knows.