Responding to an email query, King County Elections Communications Director Kim van Ekstrom reports that 9,300 new ballots were received at their Tukwila headquarters today, but only about 1,900 had postmarks that indicated they were mailed on time.
That strikes me as a pretty big number of late postmarks, and while they won’t be counted in the final results, they are useful when considering turnout as a reflection on voter enthusiasm, which looks to have been not all that bad. In fact, in both percentage and raw numbers, this primary looks to be second in turnout only to the 2004 primary, at least over the 12 years for which the county provides data online.
As for who is turning out in King County, it’s hard to say, but given the numbers in Eastside legislative races, it certainly looks to be skewing a bit more Republican than it has in recent years. That said, the best apples-to-apples comparison I can think of is 2008’s top two primary, which had only slightly lower turnout numbers, and in which Gov. Gregoire led Dino Rossi 60 to 31 percent. Patty Murray currently leads Rossi here 58 to 28 percent.
Gregoire went on to beat Rossi in November by a 64 to 36 point margin amongst King County voters. Make of that what you will.
Uhh, there was also a man named Barack Obama driving up turnout in the general two years ago, Goldy.
Since the election was Tuesday, and the “late” ballots arrived today, I’m guessing that the “invalid” ballots were probably put into a mailbox late Tuesday, but either (a) after the collection time for that mailbox, or (b) the post office was collecting them but holding them for processing (postmarking) until the next day.
Looks like we’ve got some voter education ahead of us. Or more importantly, make sure folks get their ballots mailed the week before the deadline.
Pierce and Clark Counties should be updating their totals in just a few minutes.
Mostly, I’m hoping that Shawn Bunny stays out of the general election. The guy’s a fucking troglodyte.
It’s now Rossi/Didier/Akers 48.7%
Murray 46.1%
Rasmussen has Murray ahead by 4%.
Although they had Brown & Coakley a toss-up in Mass. and Brown won by 5% points.
It’s definitely a wide-open race.
Rossi must mobilize Tea Party Activists.
Absolutely.
Wide open.
Cyn Cyn, Pudendum, Troll, JCH and all the rest need to put down the bag of glue and sell all of their possessions immediately.
Send the money to:
Dino Rossi for U.S. Senate
PO Box 50713
Bellevue, WA 98015
This is within reach, you guys.
Really.
All it takes is little more commitment from each of you. Sell both the cars (or if you’re Reagan Dunn, all twelve of them). Cash out your 401k. Sell the Krugerrands. Sell the “extra” guns. And send Dino the money right now.
Do it.
Please.
@4
Yes, Dino needs the Tea Party!!! I hope Dino runs to the Tea Party ASAP!
Turn out was pathetic.
6
Indeed. Dino’s best chance is to fully embrace the Teabaggers. He needs to emulate Sharron Angle’s ideology. Go for it, Dino.
Michael@3
Sadly this is not likely to happen. The state Democratic party royally screwed up when they jumped in and convinced Ray Bunk to move from the State Representative position to the Senate without first clearing Ron Weigelt from contention. Democrats ended up with two candidates splitting the vote against Pam Roach and a good, but very last minute candidate in Peggy Levesque falling short against Bunney.
Nindid @ 9
So will Pam Roach defeat her totally creepy fellow Republican Matt Richardson in the general election?
In any event, looks like voters in District 31 won’t have any Democrats on the general election ballot for legislature …
Richard Pope@10
Hard to say. What is for sure is that the only way Pam Roach will pull in more crossover votes is if she trashes Matt Richardson, which I can see you are participating in. She seems to be going hard and heavy on this but I think it will be really hard for Pam in the end, but not impossible.
Republicans need to do a better job of voter caging. Either that or pray to Diebold for a miracle.
Dr. Laura goes off on blacks, calling them the “n” word on air multiple times. The future leader of the free world has got her back with a tweet,
“Dr.Laura:don’t retreat…reload!”
WTF? I take it Palin doesn’t like blacks much either.
In other words: 7,400 disenfranchised voters.
With the USPS continuing to cut service, this problem will get worse over time.
And Reed will certainly propose, yet again, that ballots be received by election day vs post marked. Because these vote by mail elections take too gosh darn long to count.
But fear not, we have all those ballot drop boxes. Originally 17, now just 3 boxes and 3 voting centers.
Coming up next: Gee, all mail balloting disenfranchises too many voters. And it sure is expensive.
Fortunately, they’ve already thought of the solution: email balloting.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
Any word on if Rossi thinks the 38,352 people in Spokane County that voted for Murray are “real Americans?”
For comparisons sake:
Snohomish County:
Population: 694,500
Votes for Murray so far: 50,572
Spokane County:
Population: 468,684
Votes for Murray so far: 38,352
The press tend to look at these two as very different in terms of how they vote, but if you look at it in terms of the % of population voting for Murray they’re pretty close.
Murray wins elections because, in her races. Republicans can’t divide the state up and score big wins in the more populous areas of Eastern Washington
Clinical @4
Hey Clinical… I know there were A LOT of Democrats who voted for Didier, myself included, because we really can’t stand Dinosaurus Rossipus, and we wanted to see if we could get him gutted out in the primary.
Unfortunately for you & your ilk…Patty Murray will prevail, and Dino will join the other fossils. And besides, what the hell does Scott Brown have to do with anything, let alone in Washington State?
RE 13
No. In other words, 7400 voters who didn’t follow the rules, and whose vote was invalidated because of it.
Can’t read a ballot? Can’t read it in English? Can’t understand how a ballot works, or when it needs turned in? Maybe, just maybe a person that… umm, challenged shouldn’t be voting anyway.
1. Tyler spews:
Right Tyler.
And 2008 was Anti-Bush hysteria year.
2010–
“a man named Barack Obama will drive down turnout”
5. Doc Daneeka spews:
How ironic Doc..
That is precisely what the Coakley folks in Massa2shits said!!
Today’s poll about the sentiment of Washington State Voters…same poll that showed Murray ahead by 4 points–
Hmmmmmmmmm…seems like Murray is ahead, but behind on all the key issues.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm……….
lost @ 17
I’m guessing most of those voters were Republicans, who seem incapable of understanding basic principles of the Constitution, can’t express themselves in grammatical English (see Cynny and Puddy), and couldn’t tell you the difference between supply-side economics and market-oriented socialism.
As a public service, I feel obliged to post this for y’all:
http://dipshitconservatives.co.....rah-palin/
Roger Rabbit Veterinary Report
I’ve been zonked out on painkillers all week, so I haven’t been posting much, and didn’t follow the primary quite as closely as I might have otherwise. One thing I can say for sure is that you rightwing America-hating trollfuck traitors have your heads where you always have them. You’re kidding yourselves if you think there’s going to be a “red tide” this November! That’s an algae that makes you get sick and fucking DIE if you eat or go swimming in it, idiots! And you guys regularly swim in sludge, including your own offal.
I finally have that goddamned rubber house out of me and can pee on my own again. I’m pretty blown out and slept all afternoon, but believe me, I still have enough spring in my hind legs to kick wingnut ass, so don’t get cocky trolls! I bled way more than you’re supposed to just for kidney stones. Earlier this week I was pissing almost pure blood. I’m not sure how much blood I lost but sometimes you have no choice but to water either the tree of liberty or your catheter bag with the red stuff, depending on what the circumstances are. I’m ready to do either to save my country from wingnut treason! The veterinarian wants to put me under a general anesthesia to do a biopsy of a suspicious area in my bladder. There’s no overt evidence of cancer but it can’t be ruled out yet, either.
I’m eating lots of fresh veggies and fruits (especially organic lettuce and carrots!) to rebuild my blood inventory. Like the economy, I’m a little low on shelf supply right now. Organic is always better for you than the chemical mutations the unregulated American food processing industry pumps into your soon-to-be-carrion body! Need some organic fertilizer for your garden? Gimme a jingle and I’ll bring over some of my buddies and we’ll fertilizer your yard with fresh rabbit shit! Don’t let wingnuts shit in your garden. Their shit is full of heavy metals. They eat stolen railroad spikes for breakfast and shit out tetanus!
So, still being a bit woo-woo from all the numbing agents that have been pumped into me since Monday, I haven’t paid that much attention to the absurd claims being made by the trolls for November. Not that I ever do anyway. All I can say is the teabaggers got about the same number of votes as the fringies always get, meaning the 10% to 12% of the voting population that’s clinically insane. That’s been going on since the 1940s so it doesn’t signify any impending sea change in the power structure of this country. The goatfuckers are smoking crack if they think they’re going to be in clover this November. After the dust settles, the usual bipartisan gang of corporate whores will still be in charge, as they always are.
@18: Klynical
Like any of your “predictions” actually came true in the last election.
With the phenomenal track record for ignorance and stupidity that you have Klynical, you should be embarassed to make any more predictions.
Hey , remind us how regulation of the oil, mining and banks is a BAD thing and shout “drill, baby, drill” again – just for some laughs for the good ole’ days when you made previous predictions.
@18 “Anti-Bush hysteria”
You didn’t have to be hysterical to be anti-Bush. All you had to do was read your paycheck.
Bush wiped out millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in asset value, and klown thinks the voters were hysterical to throw out the most corrupt political party since the Harding Republicans? Or the Grant Republicans? Bush’s crowd made the Nixon Republicans look like kid pranksters by comparison. You’d have to be brain-dead to not understand why Republicans aren’t in power anymore. Sodomizing page boys and stealing taxpayer money at the same time, and all that. Oh, and Osama bin Laden was the best campaign supporter the Republicans ever had.
Rabbit,
My prayers to the Mother Spirit Rabbit for you. Hop, hump, and hurry away, if you still can.
@17 Look, you and I both know Republican voters can’t read a manual or follow a simple 1-step instruction. Even their lawyers are stupid. (See, e.g., the $2 million they blew on a legal strategy so lame even a handpicked Republican judge couldn’t resist taking votes away from Rossi.) This spring’s Tea Party protests showed the American people that Tea Partiers are basically Bolsheviks who would like to take over our goverment by sticking guns in citizens’ faces if they could get away with it. Their boy Didier (and Didier is a boy, not a man) got only 7% or 8% more than Low Tax Looper. (If you don’t know who Looper is, look him up on Wikipedia, or on the Brushy Mountain Penitentiary notorious inmate webpage. Looper, needless to say, was a Republican.) Say, how’s that private-enterprise job-creating engine doing these days? Sold many houses lately, lost? I doubt it, given that since Bush took office in 2001, ALL of the new jobs in the economy have been created by government stimulus spending. Lost, if you think the people are going to vote for more unemployment, more corruption, and mass homelessness and starvation (which is the basic GOP agenda) this November, you’ve been smoking too much drywall. You’re peeing into the wind, dude. And, I hate to tell you this, your pants are wet.
It’s amazing how a double dose of codeine can clarify your mind when thinking about public policy issues.
@27 No rabbit is immortal, but not to worry, there’s always be plenty more rabbits where I came from, and they’ll be just like me.
@24 “With the phenomenal track record for ignorance and stupidity that you have Klynical, you should be embarassed to make any more predictions.”
Some people are beyond embarrassment. They’re not capable of being embarrassed. They could run naked through an airport and wouldn’t be embarrassed by the small size of their dicks. The only reason these people don’t show up for nude bicycle rides is because nobody has organized nude SUV drives yet. But I suppose that’s next.
It’s amazing how creative you can get with the English language under the influence of codeine.
You’re one of a kind, Roger. heh- I mean that in a good way. Best wishes on the biopsy results.
@26, Rabbit…I had to travel up I5 to Bellingham today. In the 2nd district the wingnut campaign signs make it perfectly clear that the right wing nutbags, in classic sociopathic fashion have rewritten history. This sign sums it all up: 13 TRILLION DOLLARS!!! Rick Larsen’s Legacy
They just don’t want anything to do with the Reagan record budget deficits. Nor the Bush 1 deficits that built on St. Ronnie’s. Nor, in fact the fucking king of red ink Bush II’s.
They like the feeling of hot smoke up their asses.
Rabbit the Sludge Puppy master has been down the bladder cancer road so make damn sure you get a second opinion especially on the treatment if that issue should come to pass. Treated early all will be well in most cases.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about Low Tax Looper, and as we have a number of new trolls here, I probably should refresh the HA Institutional Recollection about Looper.
Low Tax Looper was a Republican politician in Tennessee who ran for four offices on the same ballot, including congressman and state senator. Our interest focuses on the state senate race. Looper went after a seat held for over 20 years by a popular Democratic farmer. Looper discovered an obscure Tennessee law that says candidates can’t be replaced on the ballot after 30 days before the election. In other words, if you have two guys running for the state senate, and one of them dies 29 days before the election, only one name will be on the ballot. The party whose candidate died can’t replace him with another candidate. So, Looper figured he’d be a shoo-in if he murdered his opponent 29 days before the election, which is exactly what he did. Unfortunately for Looper — being a stupid Republican — he forget to cover two bases. First, he got caught. And second, he overlooked the fact that this law doesn’t preclude write-in candidates. Even though Looper was the only candidate on the ballot, the victim’s widow got 96% of the vote by running against him as a write-in candidate.
Looper set the standard of electoral failure against which all other Republicans are now compared. Even an idiot like Didier can get three times the percentage of the electorate as Looper got — when Looper was the ONLY CANDIDATE ON THE BALLOT! This is probably a world record that will stand forever — getting only 4% of the vote when yours is the only name on the ballot! As a prologue, even though this incident happened a number of years ago, the farmer’s widow is still a popular Democratic state senator, and Looper is still a permanent inmate of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, the same place where MLK’s killer was incarcerated.
@35 “Treated early all will be well in most cases.”
Yeah, I know. That’s why I’m putting up with all these indignities. I realize the worst thing that could happen to America, and the best thing for wingnuts, would be NO ROGER RABBIT. Well, I ain’t gonna let that happen! Too much is at stake. If I thought I was terminal, I wouldn’t let anyone put a rubber hose up my dick, I’d either piss out of my mouth or stick a gun in my mouth and exercise my rights under Initiative what-its-face. I intend to be around meting out verbal justice to rightwing traitors for a VERY LONG TIME. So don’t break out the champagne yet, trolls! Your time is coming too, and may come sooner than mine, so don’t count your rabbits before they hatch.
It takes a Republican to get only 4% of the vote when he’s the only candidate on the ballot. Nobody else could do that.
Whatever I may think of your politics, I hope your health improves.
And thanks for your concern, real or sarcastic about my business. Which is doing fine, thanks. It’s probably an urban legend, but I heard somewhere that the Chinese symbols for crisis and opportunity are the same.
It’s interesting to me though, that 2 different posters made my comment at 17 partisan. My intent was merely to indicate that voting is a fairly uncomplicated process. Fill out a ballot, mail it in by whatever date it must be done, and that’s it. I don’t understand where this gets difficult for some.
@39 “My intent was merely to indicate that voting is a fairly uncomplicated process.”
You’ve obviously never worked as a pollworker or observed King County election workers counting ballots. You really ought to stick to stuff you know, Lost.
I appreciate your concern, and I think I’ll take a chance on you about something you might actually know. Which is, when I install handles on my kitchen and bathroom base cabinets, wall cabinets, and drawers, should I use pulls or knobs? Or both (in which case, which does where)? Got any ideas? As you surely must know, pulls cost more than knobs, and are harder to install because they require two screws instead of one.
goes not does
Rabbit @ 30
Some can be replaced, others cannot.
lost @ 39
Your post at 17 said: “Can’t read it in English?” Do you really think, given your party’s code words, that your post was nonpartisan? Moreover, given your party’s constant blathering about stealing elections and whatnot by Ds, do you think that any of us would miss what you were talking about?
lost, come on. We are not naive to your horseshit.
I mailed my ballot last week. Hopefully it was handled in a timely manner by the Post Office and not saved to be mailed out Wed the 18th.
Here’s a story about getting your ballot into the mailbox on time: I used to work with a woman who insisted that the last mail pick-up from the mailbox outside our office was at 7:30PM. The little sign on the box, however, said that the mail was picked up from that box at 4:00PM and that the last pick-up in the area was at 7:30PM at some other place, way in the South end. I even got her to go out and look at the sign with me and she STILL didn’t believe that a letter put in the box at 5:00PM wasn’t going anywhere until the next day. “It says 7:30,” she kept repeating.
This lady was a native speaker of English and a graduate of the UW (although she didn’t earn her degree until after this incident). She was also a Republican.
@25
Hmm….mine more than doubled under Bush….and has dropped 10% under Obama…
in other election news….
King of the Washington Teabaggers, and recent top vote getting loser is going to make an announcement today.
@46 Yeah? What are you? A mortgage broker?
@46 (continued) Any damn fool can create temporary jobs for mortgage brokers by pumping the economy full of hot air.
@47 “Didier finished third in the U.S. Senate primary this week with about 12 percent of the vote, despite endorsements from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Ron Paul.”
Wow. Giving speeches to the tractor-pull crowd at county fairs gets you only so far.
@17 “Can’t read it in English?” “Maybe, just maybe a person that… umm, challenged shouldn’t be voting anyway.”
@43 “Do you really think, given your party’s code words, that your post was nonpartisan?”
I missed that one. Lost’s words were very ugly. But that’s not unusual for him. He sugarcoats his hate with a thin veneer of civility. Dig beneath Lost’s shallow surface personality and we find that he’s just another hate-filled wingnut. Because of this, I have far less respect for him than I do most trolls.
@48
Nope….just a regular working joe..
@49
your ASSumptions are incorrect…per usual.
@51
shouldnt you be designing something? Get to work!
@52, 53 — I don’t assume anything, I read the fucking economic reports. Regular working joes got their wallets kicked under Bush while thieves in three-piece suits looted the economy. Anyone who claims otherwise, as you seem to be doing, either slept through the last decade or is a liar. Take your pick.
Voters rejected Didier because he had nothing to say. He’s just another teaparty parrot whose bird brain is incapable of processing any information more complicated than which seeds to eat. No thinking goes on inside the skull of a Didier or Palin. They simply react like smoke detectors to redneck applause. So do some of our trolls (not mentioning names). At least “lost” makes an attempt, however feeble, to do his own analysis.
Proud Leftist @ 22
Thanks for the link, everyone must read the whole think, I spit out my coffee when the pig masseuse was interviewed! HAHAHAHAHA
@55
hey you old turd, some people made out ok. My wife can pretty much make the same statement I did. I happen to work in an industry that exploded for most of the last decade – if you dont believe me, just ask Steve – he is all too familiar.
are you an asshole or just a prick? or just a bitter old fool?
take your pick, dick.
@58 “are you an asshole or just a prick?”
Both. Deal with it.
Has anybody seen Uptown lately? I was hoping he was gonna remind what a great investment he made in Belltown condos….LMFAO…..
@59
I dont need to deal with it fuckhead – thats what you dont get……. I just simply give people like you the finger and move on about my business.
I have no time for bitter old fools….
Let me see if I get this straight:
70% of Americans are against the “ground zero mosque” being built at its present location(a building that was damaged during the 9-11 attacks mind you)
and now Nanzi Pelosi want to investigate anyone who is agains the mosque.
Good luck with that Nanzi…..is this woman completely out of her mind?
Survey says: The bitch is batshit crazy.
@54 I hope all is well with you. My latest project, a fire fighter training campus, is out the door and now I’ve got golf on my mind!
@58 “I happen to work in an industry that exploded for most of the last decade – if you dont believe me, just ask Steve – he is all too familiar.”
Only two industries experienced explosive growth in the last decade: Financial services, which was pumped up by hot air and systemic fraud, and health care, which was pumped up by government spending. If you and your wife work in health care, then you’re living on government money, whether you know it or not. More than half of all health care spending in the U.S. is taxpayer dollars. It’s the most socialistic industry we have.
@61 Oh, but I do get it. Your thought process goes no farther than parroting what you hear on your car radio and flipping off anyone who puts up actual facts. Glenn Beck makes bank off morons like you.
Roger: Update to # 36. Brushy Mountain Correctional Facility was closed in June of last year. I’m not sure where they sent Looper after that.
Wikipedia: Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
I took a tour of Brushy Mountain when it was a maximum security prison, back in 1980. It was truly a depressing place, built in a box canyon with high cliffs on two sides, a stone headquarters building that looked like a castle on the third side, and razor-wire fences on the fourth side. No civilization for miles around.
You go, Mr. Rabbit!
@64
LMFAO…dude, you are so clueless. No, neither of us work in healthcare.
“only two industries have exploded during the last decade” aHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA
@65
I wouldnt know about glenn beck, dont listen to the guy – he is a phoney and a poser…just out to make a buck like the rest of the pundits.
Hmmm… Has plenty of time to do this:
mylaptop:~$ b hacols ‘-f=c -c=tag:eq~tehchickenshit -C’
+——-+
| count |
+——-+
| 1625 |
+——-+
1 row in set
And that’s not counting some of his recent aliases.. What an idiot.
someone tell Goldy that primary voters are partisan, motivated and locked in on decisions. This is probably even more true when we move our primary to the middle of the summer when most non-political folks (normal folks) are, oh, having summer.
and what does it tell us is 75% of the 9300 ballots are “late”? It tells us one of two things. A. The post office screwed up and stamped them with a later date, or held them and did not process them, or B. 75% of those voting at the end of this all mail election are so out of touch they don’t know the deadline.
@63
Thanks man….things are going OK. made a chance recently that I think will pay more long term dividends – and is a more “secure” place given the trouble with our market right now…minor short term pay reduction but it will pay off with a bigger return and peace of mind.
Glad to hear you are busy putting pen to paper(or LCD to screen?)
I sooo need to golf – where are you playing? We still need to go play sometime.
@69
Hey look! its ylbleeder! making more useless drivel. Have you figured out how to stand up and pee at the same time yet?
Steve,
You heard anything new about the Mcquire Building?
I found this….
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/101124304.html
Wondering if you found out any more information or dirt….
lost @ 17
Require a literacy test. Nice.
Mr Cynical wants a poll tax.
I’m glad you libertarians have it all figured out.
—
A voter does not lose their right to vote when they make a mistake.
Much like you don’t lose your right to free speech when you advocate hateful, racist, xenophobic, and unconstitutional policies.
72 – Heh. The chickenshit troll in less than a year’s time has posted almost 11 percent of my grand total.
And I’ve been here since 12/2004!
Who runs the Elections Dept ?
What party is good at finding & counting missing Ballot’s (in spite of date limits)
How hard is it to make more voters ( real or not )when you have mail in Ballots ?
And if we go to voting via E-mail ?
How can anyone believe in this election process let alone trust the results ?
Do you remember 2000+ more votes than existing voters being counted, ask her Majesty.
74 Hey Jason whatcha smokin’? Libertarians have never suggested literacy test. A couple of people may have a misunderstanding as to what the philosophy is all about but not all do. You may want to check what you’re thinking with the real world.
@75
hey YLBleeder, lets do some math, shall we? YAH!
lets assume for a minute that your life’s master work, the HA database, is fully functioning and without error.
You have been here for 6 years.
I have been here for 1 year, according to your database..lol
therefore I have been here for approx 16.6% of the time that you have.
Now you are telling me that I have only approx 11% of what you have when it comes to posts. Seems to me that I should be at least at 16.6%
and your point was that I was posting a lot? ooops, guess you kinda fucked up. you zigged when you shoulda zagged..
hhmm….kinda sucks when that math just fucks you all up(and down)and blows up in your face..dumbass.
Like I told uptown, dont come at me with this weak-ass shit – if you wanna play with Big Daddy, then do your fucking homework, or in your case, learn some basic fucking math.
crow….its whats for dinner…
and for the record, Im gonna quote your last post so you cant go back and squirm out of it..
Here is what you wrote:
75. YLB spews:
72 – Heh. The chickenshit troll in less than a year’s time has posted almost 11 percent of my grand total.
And I’ve been here since 12/2004!
@76
SHHHHHH…we arent supposed to talk about that.
Hey, I wonder why Dean Logan skipped outta town so fast? oh……
I’m curious, do most ballot counters have a D or an R behind their name?
I’m sure Didier is glad he lost. As Senator, he would have had to work, somewhat, for his government paycheck. Now he can go back and collect those farm subsidies he said he hated.
@80
Of course they have an R after their names. They’re machines, built by companies who have Republican connections. It’s a lot of work to bribe a bunch of poll workers, much easier to hack a machine that does the counting.
and thus…
like Uptown, YLBleeder goes into silent, hiding mode.
blue @ 77
Fair enough.
Do you have a link, cite, whatever for a libertarian platform?
That’d be most helpful.
@71 I’m about to take off to meet up with some old friends at Lynnwood. They’re fairly new to the game and I like Lynnwood for beginners. It’s a beautiful little course, yet easy to play.
We can get Goldy to do an email exchange. Let’s try it next week.
Hey, good luck with the new gig. We’ll talk more.
Remember the Jay Jacobs stores? I used to do work for old man Jay and his brother, Al. Anyway, I heard recently that Jay owned one of the luxury condos in that building.
Later.
YLB
What are the names Maxie is currently posting under?
78 – Heh. Chickenshit that’s one for the ages.
What’s such a hard-working, tax-paying family man like you doing posting at least 4 comments a day on HA?
Pretty obvious. Just being himself – a bigoted, ignorant lout.
@86
just this one right now…I only do one at a time…
damn, you guys sure are slow, its not like I am trying to keep them a secret…it should be pretty obvious.
..shakes head…
@87
thats the best you can come after getting your ass kicked earlier in the thread?
I can tell that you still have not figured out the math..you keep owning yourself.
HAHHAHHAHHA
try being a man(for a change), and admitting that you screwed up.
86 – Just glancing over this month’s snapshot I see Gig for Bean, huh?, Riddle of Steel, and liar liar pants on fire.
He’s getting as bad as the HNMT (who by the way has been kind of scarce lately).
Duh… Considering that there’s maybe only a hundred other people that have posted over a 1000 comments here.
You obviously have your holier than thou right wing priorities straight.
@47
Oops, Didier today announced that he will not automatically endorse Rossi. Didier wants Rossi to promise he won’t raise the federal deficit and must propose an anti-abortion bill. Well, Rossi has already promised Wall Street he’ll give them anything they want, including tax breaks that will raise the deficit. And we saw yesterday that the anti-abortion crowd is none too pleased with Rossi’s vote in Olympia for the morning after pill.
Ok bigoted lobotomy, let’s give this the treatment it deserves:
With over 435 thousand comments in it, it’s acccurate enough for my purposes.
Not quite but ok.
When did I say that? According to ME, you came up on my radar 9/20/2009 calling me names that you haven’t backed up with facts ONCE. I’ve haven’t had the time to research anything earlier. If you were here earlier then you’re probably in the database, yes.
For the moment, yep.
So far so good.
According to you maybe.
Yep. At least 4 comments a day since 9/20/2009. That’s certainly more than most people who’ve commented here.
ooops, guess you kinda fucked up. you zigged when you shoulda zagged..
I’d say you fucked up by making a choice to be a bigoted, ignorant lout. But feel free to make up shit like you usually do.
hhmm….kinda sucks when that math just fucks you all up(and down)and blows up in your face..dumbass.
Well I’d say it kind of sucks to claim you have no time for Roger Rabbit when you obviously do. Here’s another query:
mylaptop:~$ b hacols ‘-f=c -c=body:matches~”*goebbels rabbit” -C’
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I’d say you had AT LEAST 80 minutes.
Like I told uptown, dont come at me with this weak-ass shit – if you wanna play with Big Daddy, then do your fucking homework, or in your case, learn some basic fucking math.
Yawnnn..
crow….its whats for dinner…
Tastier than shit I suppose. Which you eat every other day being an idiot.
as for the rest. blah, blah, blah
Rossi/Didier/Akers 48.5%
Murray 46.3%
Rasmussen has Murray up 4 points.
Sounds about right..although Rasmussen had Coakley & Brown even…and Brown won by 5, so Rasmussen is a bit left-leaning. Rasmussen also underestimated Christy in NJ and the Republican in Virginia.
Yet the KLOWNS scream, despite the factual track-record, that Rasmussen is some kind of stealth Republican operatives.
PARANOIA and STUPIDITY..a trademark of the fringe lunatic left!
Hey are you HA KLOWNS among the 2% who want the US to support Iran when Israel is forced to open up on them?
@92
Oh, it gets better. According to this Publicola article, Didier was asked if he spoke to Rossi about his requirements before endorsing. Said Didier, “He [Rossi] just said he wanted to think about it”. Even funnier is that Rossi didn’t think to call Didier and ask for his support. “Hey Clint, sorry you lost, but what can I do to help convince your supporters that I’m really on their side?”. So all Rossi cares about is stuffing his pockets with cash from the people on Wall Street and running a bunch of negative ads to get people to vote for him.
The campaign commercials just write themselves. Rossi needs to “think about” not raising the federal budget? Needs to “think about” sponsoring anti-abortion legislation? I thought righties were straight-talking, shoot-from-the-hip kind of people. Now Rossi wants to poke a finger in the wind and see which way it’s blowing? I smell a three time loser.
http://www.publicola.net/2010/.....e-demands/
In Massa2shits, the Left was chastising the Tea Party and Republicans about wasting their money on Scott Brown.
See the same thing her with the denial bunch about Rossi.
I can’t wait until the Debates.
Rossi will crush the little troll.
don–
You are clueless about what is going on behind the scenes. Do you really think the strategy to take out Murray is something to be publicized? Come on. Wise up and grow up.
Just how does Didier publicly saying that Rossi wants to “think about” supporting those things that Republicans care about help Rossi with the voters? You know, those that don’t have the secret decoder rings you paranoids have?
I grew up along time ago and don’t believe in imaginary boogie men or secret coded messages sent via the media.
The prime mission of the Tea Party is to stop Deficit Spending. That’s an easy one for Rossi. The Abortion issue is Didier’s…not the Tea Party’s.
Rossi will certainly wrapped himself in the fiscal/smaller government issues.
He will tell Didier once again his position on abortion. If Didier thinks he can bully Rossi on this, he’s mistaken. Didier has a reputation as a bit of a bully…but remember, the Tea Party is not about one person. Didier would commit political suicide by becoming the focal point of the Rossi-Murray race. Rossi does not need Didier’s “blessing”.
@93
HAHAHHAHAAHHHHAHAH…its TEH OMG FAYLE!
you owned yourself again…wow..unbelievable.
you remind of an old beatup Datsun B-210 on a cold day…pump the gas(cause its got a carb), engine keeps cranking over, sputting, not quite starting, coughing, sputtering, almmost catching but not quite…then the battery dies….owners says fuck it, and calls the junk yard to haul away the POS….
basic math still eludes the bleeder…
@99 “Rossi does not need Didier’s “blessing”.”
If you had bother to read the article at the link I posted, you’ll see that people that supported Didier will not automatically support Rossi. Said Didier, “I know my endorsement is very important to my supporters. I know that my supporters aren’t going to automatically vote for Rossi. And a lot them told me they won’t vote for him at all.“. So Rossi is going to have a rough time mobilizing the tea partiers without Didier’s blessing. Maybe the Tea Party hasn’t taken a position on abortion, but good luck finding a pro-choice voter anywhere in that party.
Supposedly Rossi already knows what he stands for, why does he need to “think about” saying it out loud? Abortion, limited government, low taxes? Why does Rossi need to think about it? Oh, I forgot, secret plan, all will be revealed in due time.
Unfortunately, but predictably, “thejesus’ownbutthole…mr.cynical” is wrong about the teabaggers.
The teagaggers (sic) sole reason for existance is to provide fucking comic relief for any voter with minimum critical thinking skills.
The reagan “cheap labor conservative/ money-slut revolution” is reducing this proud Nation which once had the highest standard of living this planet has ever seen to the level of a third-world banana republic. The teabaggers illustrate in stark relief what the future will look like under their rule. Bleak, bleak, bleak, bleak.
“thejesus’ownbutthole…mr.cynical” is the perfect thebagger….proud to demonstrate over and over and over his bigotry and ingnorant selfishness…shouting it, in fact, from the rooftops at the top of his lungs…leaving no doubt in anyone about how mind-numbingly stupid he is.
We may lose this battle, and if we do…it will just help us win the war.
@100 – Heh I just tagged more of your shit. Karl Hungus??? How memorable were that lout’s comments?
mylaptop:~$ b hacols ‘-f=c -c=tag:eq~tehchickenshit -C’
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By my reckoning that’s a solid 5 comments per day since 9/20/2009.
And it’s probably higher.
Rossi/Didier/Akers 48.7%
Murray
Murray 46.2%
(2.5%)
Yup, Murray is a shoe-in.
@105, 106
Murray was a shoe in for the primary. People weren’t very motivated to vote for her, where they were very motivated to vote for Didier. Murray will pull off a win by 8-12% this time around. Personally, I’m still inclined to think she’ll be closer to 12% than 8%.
“thejesus’ownbutthole…mr.cynical” forgets (surprising no one) that Washington voters do not like or trust the slimy real estate speculator the r’s have hitched their horse to.
He just don’t wear well buddy…and Murray’s done too much for too many folks in this state.
No go, joe…I say 12-15%.
@84 here you go Jason
http://www.lp.org/platform
Wow–
Michael Says Murray by 12 points.
Rujax Says Murray by 12-15 points.
I’ll copy your predictions and dredge them up election night.
I say it will be too close to call Election Night…..
Right now I lean toward Murray winning a squeaker (less than 1 point)
@108 @110
Look, it’s a close, very close race.
Because it’s so close, Patty Murray will win.
It’s going to go down like this.
Election night – Dino leads
Next Day – Dino still leads declares victory
Day three – King county finds more ballots
Day four – King county finds yet another container of ballots.
Day five – King county still counting 100,000 ballots.
2 weeks later – Patty Murray declared winner by 7 ballots.
Still riding that “mean ‘ol “Democrats stole my election!” thing, Right Stuff? The fact that a judge hand-picked by the Republicans in a solidly Republican county found otherwise after a lengthy trial never seems to prevent you from continuing to insist that the obviously false is true.
I’m not going to make any predictions about percentages. I am, however, going to work very hard to make sure everyone around me knows the importance of (a) seeing through Rossi’s B.S., and (b) getting their ballots in the mail at least a week or so before the deadline.
That, in itself, might result in another 200 or so votes for Murray.
So Rossi is now wanting five debates, PLUS one “nationally televised debate”.
Okay, I think I see where Rossi is heading with this one. He’s expecting to lose in Washington, as he always does, but he thinks he might have a future as the equivilent of Sarah Palin, if only he can get a national following. He’s seeing big advances for book publishing (written by ghost writers), serving as a regular pundit on Fox News, etc.
@94 Wahahaha … yeah, if you guys gang up on us three-to-one, you might have a ghost of a chance.
@99 “The prime mission of the Tea Party is to stop Deficit Spending.”
You are so fucking funny, goatfucker! Where were the Tea Partiers when Bush was racking up the biggest deficits of all time to (a) fight an optional war and (b) give tax breaks to billionaires? Obama ran deficits to pull us out of the depression you guys caused. That’s the only deficit spending you’re against — paying unemployment benefits to the unemployed so they can survive, and putting Americans back to work. Hypocrite.
Re 43
My party? I hold my nose and vote Republican as the lesser of 2 evils. I don’t do so on grounds of ideology or a sheer love of all things Republican.
And whatever you or Steve or anyone else thinks, this was simple frustration at anyone who finds voting difficult. It isn’t. A ballot is an uncomplicated piece of paper and the process is set by easily found out and understood rules.
Rabbit @ 40
You’re right, I haven’t worked in a polling place, nor a ballot counting environment. Aren’t most ballots mail in anymore, though?
Knobs or pulls are a question of asthetics. I suppose you could say a pull was stronger, with 2 screws, but the physical force exerted on either is pretty negligible in any case.
I’ve seen pulls on the base units and knobs on the uppers before, and liked it. Most folks pick one and go with it, though. Pretty much a matter of yours and Mrs Rabbits tastes. A fun hardware store on Elliot near the Magnolia Bridge has a huge selection of either. It’s on the right going towards Ballard. Not cheap, but the stuff is well made and the selection is good. Home Depot and Lowes both have online catalogues of draw pulls and knobs too. Made in China as cheaply as possible, but again, this hardware gets light duty use.
Have fun with the remodeling project.
Re 74
A ballot is an ipso facto literacy test. But I wasn’t suggesting we adopt one for voting.
All I was saying is that voting has to proceed by pre-established rules. If someone is too lazy or confused to do so, yes they lose the franchise for that ballot. What would you suggest? Open ended voting with no deadline? How would you ever do a count, if you don’t first establish a point at which incoming votes can no longer be counted?
And for the record, Libertarians are the closest to the Constitution with their platform, but I’m not one, nor did I claim to be. Like many Americans I have a rooted distrust of all political parties and politicians. Fine words and fine deeds are never paired with these folks.
Cynical @110:
Copy mine too, schmuck.
There are only two questions in the Murray-Rossi race:
a) is Joel Connelly correct that this will be WA’s closest Senate race since Cantwell ousted Gorton in 2000?
b) will Patty’s margin reach double-figures?
I say yes and yes.
Since 2000, the results of Senate races in Washington were Murray 55.0%-Nethercutt 42.7% in 2004 (a 12.3% margin) and Cantwell 56.9%-McGavick! 39.9% in 2006 (a margin of 17.0%).
My prediction for 2010 is that Patty’s margin will be 11-12%, the lowest since 2000 yet still nicely in double-figures. Yeah, I know, Joel (unintentionally?) set a rather low bar for “close”.
@110
I’ve been saying it since early summer and I haven’t seen anything to change my mind yet. Feel free to drag it back up on election night. I’ve been wrong plenty of times before, there’s no shame in it. It’s not like you can embarrass me with it.