“Burner Wins!” If Washington’s 8th Congressional District primary had the same rules as a judicial primary, that might be the headline splashed across the top of the Seattle Times and P-I this morning.
Of course the totals are extremely close, and far from complete, so when the final numbers are in Rep. Dave Reichert may turn out to have tallied more primary votes than Democratic challenger Darcy Burner, but what we’ve seen so far should have 8th CD R’s very worried. As of the last report Burner has received 19,529 primary votes compared to Reichert’s 19,133. Both candidates ran unopposed, and while primary results can be misleading, these results are a classic sign of a vulnerable incumbent.
Perhaps most encouraging (or distressing, depending on your party affiliation) is Burner’s performance in Pierce County, where Democrat Dave Ross got trounced in 2004. At the moment Reichert is only leading by a 6,699 to 6,424 margin. If Burner can keep the race close in the Southern part of the district come November, she’s virtually assured victory.
Remember, Burner went into this race with zero name recognition against one of the best known politicians in the region, and has spent very little money thus far getting her name and face in front of voters. Barring disastrous polls (and the Reichert camp’s silence on their own internal polling indicates there aren’t any) Burner can cash in her performance yesterday to assure that the DCCC follows through on the substantial financial support it has already committed.
Any way you look at it, the primary results represent a big win for Darcy Burner.
SAN FRANCISCO – California filed suit against Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and three other carmakers on Wednesday, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have cost the state millions of dollars. State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California was the first of its kind to seek to hold manufacturers liable for the damages caused by their vehicles’ emissions. [………………………………………………………………………….Democrats Grossman, Silverstein, Loeb, and Goodmanstein, ESQ, have filed suit, representing “Kalifornia”!]
I am convinced that Pam Roach/Aka Janet S public comments to the effect that a woman’s place is in the home, hurt RubberStampReichert. I hope we hear more of that insane shit from Pam. It can only help Darcy. Oh and one other thing that separates Darcy from Sheriff Davie and Pam Roach, Darcy has immediate family members (father, brother, husband) with military and combat experience. For her, war is not some thing you send people you don’t know and don’t care about to do.
Come to think of it, RubberStampReichert could have fought in the first war against Iraq. Why didn’t he enlist?
Doc JCH,
When I lived in CA, they were always hot-to-trot to collect one tax or another for owing and operating a car.
This is another nuisance lawsuit. It makes about as much sense as trying to sue China for the pollution that blows accross the Pacific and settles on the California hills. The only ones who might possibly benefit from this one would be the trial lawyers.
Gee, last I looked CA had the toughest air quality standards in the nation. They had the no public smoking law years before WA. They have been very sucessful in cleaning up the air and environment. I know, for a fact, that the air is cleaner now than when I grew up in the San Fernando Valley as child in the ’60s.
Finer legal minds that those of the Pacific Island dweller and Lebertarian have concluded that there is merit to the lawsuit.
Bush no good! Bush no good! Bush no good!
I voted Darcy in.
Dave is going home.
Goldy, I’m frankly surprised that someone as politically savvy as you would get the analysis of the primary result so wrong. Certainly you know that you cannot compare results across parties anymore! The simple fact is that, with the exception of the U.S. Senate race, there were NO contested Republican primaries ANYWHERE in King County (or in the Pierce portion of the 8th) to either draw Republican voters to the polls, or, if they did vote, to cause them to mark Republican. Many, many independent voters who would vote for Reichert would have instead marked D and voted in the contested Democratic primaries in the 47th, 48th, and elsewhere. I wouldn’t even be surprised if there were Republicans out there casting ballots for Hong Tran or Santiago Ramos just to make a statement. And with the current primary system, if they make that choice in order to participate in a meaningful vote, they’re locked out of voting for Republicans in other races. You just have to get beyond the old blanket primary paradigm in which the primary was a “trial run” of the general — it’s not anymore.
Brace yourselves.
KCRE’s Bobby Egan is reporting that a proof reading error on the printing of last minute replacement and some one-time-only absentee ballots has resulted in the county flaggiing about 9,000 such ballots for hand copying onto machine readable ballots.
The actual number of ballots affected is expected to be much less, and the work around process will not alter or affect the vote count in any way.
Nevertheless, can’t you just hear the rusty gears grinding in the feeble minds over at uSP? Every single error by KCRE is like oxygen for Stephanie’s rapidly declining career.
7 Good point. I’m also curious–is there any published information yet regarding how many ballots were flagged because people neglected to pick a party preference, or voted for the opposing party’s candidates?
1, 4, 5 Our daughter moved to Los Angeles six years ago, and since then we’ve been down to visit her several times. One thing I’ve found quite impressive is how much cleaner the air is there than it was when I was a kid in the early 60’s and my family would go to visit relatives and “take the children to Disneyland”. Back then, it was not uncommon for the smog to be so thick that you couldn’t see further than a block on Wilshire. Now, the air’s still a little gritty (compared to here) but for there to be such a giant improvement even though the population has grown quite a bit is truly impressive.
For that matter, Seattle has improved significantly over the same period. I grew up on Magnolia, and I rember sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast and watching the great clouds of smoke from Bethlehem Steel and the factories on Harbor Island drift eastward and settle over downtown. Seems I remember the great hue and cry from the conservatives and captains of industry about how we couldn’t interfere with any of that or the economy would collapse, everyone would be out of work and our great American Way of Life would come to an end.
Hmm…sue for pollution blowing across the Pacific? Maybe we can do that the next time JCH farts.
Finer legal minds that those of the Pacific Island dweller and Lebertarian have concluded that there is merit to the lawsuit.
Commentby My Left Foot— 9/20/06@ 12:08 pm
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It’s still a nuisance lawsuit. Nothing will come of it.
I agree. Anyone who wants to connect primary results to the final should look at the old southwestern union counties. Wahkiakum going to be over 2-to-1 Dem come election day? No.
But Democrats should be happy about one thing – Okanogan County. Dems outnumbered GOP ballots there. I assumed that the Dem resurgence (according to precinct results) was an end result of increased service industry participation around Twisp and Winthrop, which swung majorly to the Dems between 2000 and 2004. That’s the kind of thing that doesn’t stay around until the primary, yet somehow this happened. Bodes well for Goldmark.
Toby @7,
True, but that said, there was a 15 percent under vote in the Democratic primary for WA-8. Crossover oters had every opportunity not to cast a vote, and many clearly took that option.
Besides, all I’m saying is that the results are encouraging and that Burner is competitive. I think you’d have to agree with me that this is a very competitive race.
Many, many independent voters who would vote for Reichert would have instead marked D and voted in the contested Democratic primaries in the 47th, 48th, and elsewhere.
Or, alternately, many, many independent voters are sick of the Republican Congress and its servile attitude to an unpopular and divisive Republican president, and have deicded they are voting Democratic this year.
I guess we’ll find out in November, eh?
And incidentally, Toby, how is it, if this is going to be such a wonderful year for Rs, that Larry Springer’s running ahead of your vote total in your own district- and you’re basically tied in vote total with a Democrat running for the first time for your open House seat (as well as being somewhat behind your challenger for Finkbeiner’s open Senate seat)? You and Springer both have name recognition district-wide as incumbents, right, as well as the perks of office? Is that a whiff of panic I smell?
But seriously- I looked at a LOT of Puget Sound swing districts (2nd, 26th, 30th, 31st, 39th, 41st, 45th, 47th, 48th), and the R candidate/incumbent is looking good in…exactly none of them. It’s either close but losing, or just plain losing.
Now, there’s still time until November…but I think the state D’s have a very good shot of picking up some House and Senate seats, as well as shot at Reichert’s seat. Now it’s time to keep plugging away, fellow Ds- get out your checkbooks and get ready to volunteer, the big push is ahead.
I just love watching the wheels come off the Republican’s political machine.
You guys had it all, and you fucked it up royally.
Good luck with the impeachments, congressional investigations, more special prosecutors, Bush being tried for war crimes.
Ohhhhh, man 2007 is going to be one fucking great year for one-liners on late night TV shows.
Thanks, you dildos.
Oh, and Goldy, you forgot to mention: Mike!™ McGavick’s done, finito, 30, barring something very spectacular (typically this means the live boy/dead girl type of scandal that can crash a campaign).
Nethercutt in 2004 primaries: 34% of total vote
Mike!™ in 2006 primaries: 36% of vote…without King County fully reporting. That’s going to go down.
Mike!™’s going to be 20 points down to Cantwell by the time the primary votes are all counted.
Basically, the top of the ticket is going to SUCK for the Rs this year- and you can bet that the national Rs will be pulling out the stops for Chafee and their endangered incumbents. They’re not going to be wasting time on someone who’s primary results are that bad. Reichert may get some national love…but there are an awful lot of guys who are facing some long odds.
MAYDAY, MAYDAY !
The Diebold ship Rethuglican is sinking and needs assistance. All ships need to respond ASAP.
*very loud sound of crickets*
@ 18:
That reminds me of why JCH washed out of flight school. As soon as he got in the jet he’d yell MAYDAY, MAYDAY **BARFFFFFFFF** **HUHFF** **BAAAARRRRRFFFFFF**
Yeah, he’d “blow the mask” constantly, then he tried blowing the instructor so he wouldn’t be kicked out of flight school.
Here’s the funny part; the flight instructor let JCH suck his dick, made him swallow and then he kicked him out. Oh, but it gets even funnier; JCH’s flight instructor was one Randy “Duke” Cunningham.
Karma’s a real mother fucker isn’t it, JCH!
Besides- most people here illegally or not Mexican, not even Hispanic- they came on visas and overstayed.
Commentby Jim King—— 9/17/06@ 7:38 pm
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Bullshit,you don’t know what you’re talking about. You have no idea how many illegal aliens are in the country or how many are Mexican or Hispanic.
Commentby americafirst—— 9/17/06@ 9:11 pm
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Jim King, got those figures yet, phoney?
Dudley DoWrong can’t do a thing to help the RNC hang on to the Senate.
With the data trends indicating a loss of control in the House, and the MIKE$ campaign folding, it wouldn’t be unreasonable for the RNC to pull the soft money out of a close race in a Washington state C.D. trending Democratic in order to focus it on Senate Reppublicans riding the bubble elsewhere.
We can expect to see Rubberstamp out on Pac Hwy in spike heels and a tube top if that’s what it takes to improve his fundraising performance.
Otherwise he may have to face 2007 starting a new carrer in the exciting field of “expert” testimony for the personal injury industry like Don Van Blaricom.
Basically, the top of the ticket is going to SUCK for the Rs this year- and you can bet that the national Rs will be pulling out the stops for Chafee and their endangered incumbents. They’re not going to be wasting time on someone who’s primary results are that bad. Reichert may get some national love…but there are an awful lot of guys who are facing some long odds.
Commentby eponymous coward— 9/20/06@ 1:28 pm
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McGavick is a pussy. Cheap labor phoneys like “Jim King” must be working on the campaign.
ASS who?
“Finer legal minds have concluded that there is merit to the lawsuit.”
Comment by My Left Foot [ Another lawsuit by Silverstein, Stein, Grossmanstein, Loeb, and Lowenstein……ROTFLMAO!]
“Bush no good! Bush no good! Bush no good!”
Comment by My Left Foot [……… “If we all convert to Islam, and say prayers in Muuuuuuuslim, the terrorists have assured me they will land the plane safely at JFK!” [Carl Grossman, Jewish Democrat]]
GBS @ 18:
Well, the Duke Cunningham relationship would explain the whole gay hustler thing with John Craig.
I find it hard to think that independants will break for Reichert, especially in the current polticial climate. Sure, there will be plenty of Rovian Smears coming out of the GOP, but Burner has showed she is worth funding for the Dems, and it is time for a new broom.
It’s not November yet folks let alone 2008.
One step at a time.
The minnow seems awfully upset over the election last night. Apparently the BIAW learned from his stellar work during the election challange and are paying him based upon his success.
September 15 was an important day for the Imperial Federal Government of the United States. It was the day that quarterly tax payments are due. This is one of four times a year when businesses have to pay their estimated taxes. And what a haul it was for the Feds…in fact, they raked in so much money, they set a record.
$85.8 billion dollars was taken in…all in one day. This is a 20% increase over last year….twenty percent! And to think some people actually think the government doesn’t have enough money. We gotta “pay off” the deficit you know. The fact that so much money flowed into the treasury at once is important for a few reasons.
One, the economy continues to go like gangbusters. We are right in the middle of an historic economic boom. Don’t let the mainstream media or the Democrats tell you otherwise…we’ve never had it so good. Add on top of that falling gas prices and we’ve got a great economic situation. In addition, the fact that tax receipts jumped 20% shows us that the Bush tax cuts are working just as they intended.
Second, the fact that so much money was confiscated by the federal government in a single 24 hour period tells us something else. The government is too big…and it’s become so large under a Republican administration and a Republican Congress. The Reagan Revolution is official dead among “conservative” politicians.
Wait! One more thing! What about those horrible Bush tax cuts? I thought the government was starving for the money it needed because the rich were getting away with murder! Well, once again we see that cutting taxes on the productive class actually leads to higher government tax revenues. That’s a lesson the left will never learn.
JCH repeats himself so much, it reminds me of my Mom as she descended into the depths of Alzheimer’s.
For that matter, the paranoid delusions are similar, too.
Unsound Politics has this one much more correct than Goldy; the result don’t show Burner has any edge at all: “In King County, Democrat turnout in the 2004 8th District primary was 16% higher than Republican turnout and Ross received 31% more votes than Reichert did. In Pierce County, total Republican turnout was also 4% higher than Democrat turnout and Ross received 8% more votes than Reichert did. Complete numbers follow:
King Pierce Total
All Democrats 68,176 13,194 81,370
Dave Ross 32,400 6,947 39,347
All Republicans 58,524 13,754 72,278
Dave Reichert 24,661 6,427 31,088”
I thought Dave Ross looked in a pretty good position after the 2004 primary, but it didn’t mean anything (although Ross did better than Burner in the primary). And, as Toby Nixon says, when the blanket primary was used, primary results were much more meaningful as to the general election outcome.
I contributed to Burner’s campaign, but I haven’t yet seen it go to any use that is likely to work. Her bio TV ad won’t work; her resume is only fair no matter what. Just by not being a Republican, she can get around 45% to 48% from Democrats and from those who think the DeLay/Rove/Bush crowd with whom Reichert hangs out are terrible. Getting to 50.01% requires getting a number of voters to vote AGAINST Reichert. He has many weaknesses, from letting Ridgeway get away for twenty years, to running an incompetent or worse Sheriff’s office, to his rubber-stamp approach to so many bad right-wing ideas in Congress. Unless these weaknesses (including some formerly considered strengths of being Sheriff) are made extremely visible, Burner will get the same vote percentage as Dave Ross.
The progressive movement wastes tens of millions of dollars every two years. How? By continuing to buy expensive and poorly targeted broadcast television advertising that reaches demographic groups and geographic areas that have no impact on an issue or race. Thankfully, more precise advertising methods are now available. [Try Black Velvet bottles, Marlboro packages, and advertising in Mexico’s prisons. This could really bring in the Democrat votes!!
@19- Hey nutjob- since you apparently are too inept to do you own fucking research, start here- http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0482.pdf
When you get that digested- there are some awfully big words for your little mind to wrap itself around, so I don’t expect that to be in our lifetimes- get back to me…
Coward- you didn’t look too closely, did you?
Take the 47th- Steve Johnson’s seat (which was being all but written off until last night)- Kauffman spent over $100,000 to get 1,449 votes (as of this morning); Crawford spent another $60,000 for his 1,061 votes; Republican Riley spent less than $40,000 for his 2,389- just under half of the vote.
And in the two House races- with two incumbant House Democrats each spending over $100,000, against two Republican challengers spending less than $30,000 each. Position 1- D- 2,306, R- 2,303; Position 2- D- 2,285, R- 2,309.
Those are GOOD numbers for the D’s?
Or look down into the 17th District- hand-picked (by Speaker Chopp) Democrat challenger with a $100,000 campaign loses primary to local boy who can’t decide if he is an R or a D and spent under $3,500- all but handing the seat back to the R’s.
Or maybe look at House Democratic Caucus Chair Bill Grant in Walla Walla- $150,000 warchest, pulls 3,914 votes. Two Republicans spent just over $30,000 COMBINED- and pulled 6,349 votes. Can we say goodbye to the only House Democrat east of the mountains who doesn’t live in Spokane’s 3rd District?
Or Chris Marr’s run at Brad Benson in Spokane- Marr’s almost $300,000 warchest got him 8,392 votes; Benson’s $120,000 got him 10,359 votes. For that Lisa Brown moved the September committee meetings to the Davenport?
A lot of tea leaves out there- a lot of spinning that can be done. But uniformly gloomy for the GOP? Hardly…
@19- Hey nutjob- since you apparently are too inept to do you own fucking research, start here- http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0482.pdf
When you get that digested- there are some awfully big words for your little mind to wrap itself around, so I don’t expect that to be in our lifetimes- get back to me…
Commentby Jim King— 9/20/06@ 4:20 pm
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I knew you were stupid, but if you think figures on visa overstays proves your point you really are a basket case. Don’t you realize that to prove that “most people here illegally “or” (presumably you meant “are”) not Mexican, not even Hispanic,” you would have to know the total number of illegal aliens here and what percentage of those were Mexican and Hispanic?
You are just a cheap labor corporate hack talking out of your ass.
I know, it is much easier to go around like americafirst and the racist rodent muttering about fucking Mexicans than it is too look at the real problems. No terrorist came over the Mexican border. They came on visas and from Canada.
They don’t pick crops, build houses, run restaurants, or otherwise become productive members of our society.
They blow things up. Or try to.
So let’s concentrate on running out of our country all of those who bring something to our table- and ignore those who want to tip the table over before shooting everyone.
Yes, americafirst and the racist rodent really HAVE hthought this all through, haven’t they?
They’re not just picking fruit. While you’re at work they’re inside your home with your wife and kids, installing carpet or repairing sheetrock – working off the books.
I know. I’ve worked along side some of them. Some are here because they can’t work back home, a result of their histories of criminal conviction. And while they can’t be bonded here in Washington either, that won’t stop cheap labor conservatives from letting them into their homes. Not if it will save them a few bucks.
And while they’re being paid under the table to case your house, some decent American kid (maybe your neighbor’s) will be sitting around drinking beer and drawing unemployment. Now how much money are you really saving?
I don’t know why anyone would vote for Darcy Burner. We need Reichert to ignore the 9-11 Commission Reccomendations for another 2 years so we can get hit again, and our firemen, and policemen can never communicate with each other.
I think I will give Reichert a grade for his work in congress so far.
Helping American People F
Voting with Tom Delay A
Protecting America F
Pork to district D
Paying for Pork to District F
If Cantwell wraps up the race early. Republicans will again pour money into the 8th to try to smear Darcy.
GBS YOU FUCKIN DISGRACE CRAWL BACK IN YOUR HOLE,ANYBODY WHO GETS BOOTED FROM THE NAVY FOR HITTING AN OFFICER IS JUST A TURD,THAT WOULD BE YOU LOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSER.NO WONDER YOU TILT TO THE LEFT.TAKE JOHN THE NCC WITH YOU.
darcy would actually have to be someone or have done something of significance in order to be smeared. As it stands now, she’s an empty nothing looking for something.
my name is darcy and I’m trying to be self-actualized here – Vote for ME!
my name is darcy and I’ll work hard for more nuts in every chipmunk cheek!
@37- and yet another stupid racist weighs in. tThem brown-skinned are just here to case our homes and molest our women…
Hey, dumbfuck- workers don’t need to be bonded- contractors do- and then only legal contractors bother.
And you admit you were working under the table and stealing from every honest worker out there. So why should anyone care what you think, asshole? Or believe a word you say?
Any way you look at it, the primary results representS THE ONLY win for Darcy Burner.
“Besides, all I’m saying is that the results are encouraging and that Burner is competitive. I think you’d have to agree with me that this is a very competitive race. ”
Darcy’s competitive?
Against whom was she running? Nobody….
Against whom was Reichert running? Nobody…
I personally voted a dem ticket so I could vote for someone other than Maria Cantwell. You can’t put any stock in our current primary system. I personally question the need for it as it is setup now.
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