With about 41,000 votes left to count, Rossi now leads Gregoire by 1920 votes, and current county margins project a 3400 vote victory. (For Rossi, that is.) That’s an improvement (for Gregoire) from yesterday, but the remaining votes would really have to break strongly in her favor to make up the gap.
You want hope? If Gregoire can pull within 2000 votes and trigger an automatic recount, anything can happen. In the senatorial race four years ago, Maria Cantwell picked up over 1500 votes in the recount.
Gregoire is losing in a supposedly Democrat state because no one wants another four years of the status quo. Her allegiance to Governor “Do Nothing” Gary Locke is probably why a lot of voters, including me have decided to vote for Rossi. Could we expect the establishment of another “Blue Ribbon panel” to further study why Seattle has bad traffic”?
I’m not terribly enthralled with Gregoire but I do not want the stealth candidate Rossi appointed by the Republicans.Just a thought, Republican Sam Reed put the Libertarian candidate, Ruth Bennet on the ballot due to a court case that could not be resolved before the ballots would be issued.She did not receive enough voted in the primary to be eligible.Since she supports gay marriage I don’t think any of her votes would have gone to Rossi.There would have been some write ins for her but wouldn’t most of her 50,000 plus votes have gone to Gregoire?
I somewhat agree, Gregoire is losing because she didn’t sufficiently set forth a vision, whereas even though Rossi’s vision was a lie, at least he had one.
If voters had voted on the issues instead of the candidates, Gregoire would have won easily.
No kidding! I see 0 vision from Gregoire. That’s where her campaign seriously lacked. But there’s no way I want Rossi to win….he really sucks. I think the campaign was simply too cautious. They should have taken a few more risks.