Darcy Burner lost ground after yesterday’s ballot dumps, and now trails Dave Reichert by about 1,800 votes, with about half the ballots counted. And of course, that’s a very discouraging trend.
That said, it may not represent a trend at all, as at the moment we have absolutely no idea where these ballots came from, either geographically or temporaly. These could be early absentees. These could be recent arrivals. These could be a random sample. Your guess is as good as mine.
For those following the results from outside Washington state, it is important to remember that unlike neighboring Oregon, ballots must merely be postmarked by election day, and they’ll continue to arrive for days. So once (if?) King and Pierce counties catch up with the ballots on hand we’ll have a much better idea of the status of this race.
Tuesday I “worked” Crossroads with my Bama-Burner encrusted Inferrari and a hand full of Bama bucks.
To my surprise, I parked near to a K Co voter ballot drop off box and it was very busy. My guess is that these ballots and mail-ins were a large part of the Eastside vote.
Using my covert Massad training in psychological profiles. I would guestimate that the dem rep mix was about 50 50 or worse for us. Having said that, I am rather allergic to reps and am likely to overestimate the importance of certain car brands in my evaluation. OTOH, when I went in the mall, I ofund only 1/5 people who did not take a bama buck and thank me. OTOH, I again may have prejudiced this survey by my judicious choices of who not to approach.
Lets hope for the best. I recommend prayers to Raven, the great NW deity of wisdom and trickery.
The wingnuts have been scarce lately. The shattering blow has been too much for them. They’re nursing their wounds with huge infusions of Limbaugh, Faux Noise and countless other sources of right wing insanity.
But if Darcy loses, oh will they be back in force to gloat.
Ahhh. Such is life. Gotta take the good with the bad.
@2 That goatfucker Puddy is nowhere to be found. Coward.
@1 What happened to your faith in el Shaddai??
“Joe the Plumber”: the gift that keeps on giving.
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/.....662/655305
A welfare case. What was that about “redistributing” right wingers?
Ahhh the taint. Why couldn’t “Joe””s family be strong enough to “work hard” and “pull themselves up by their bootstraps”.
Of such material right wing fairy tales are made.
This would be a bitter loss, coming as it would after a Times/Republican-supported smear campaign and illegal campaign contributions to Reichert.
That’s what you might call “starting off on the wrong foot.”
That King County lags in counting is a very, very positive sign for Peter Goldmark. I won’t say it’s in the bag for him, but as I write he’s already 1.6% ahead of Sutherland, with King and Snohomish (where he’s getting 52% of the votes) still processing at least 400,000 votes between them.
One strange thing about the Public Lands race is Thurston County. It’s ordinarily a reliably Democratic county (Obama 60%, Gregoire 58%), but Sutherland is getting nearly 54% of the county’s vote. It really is an ingrown place, that Olympia.
I think we can definitely call the Tresurer race for Jim McIntire. He’s currently up almost 4%, and leads by a hefty margin in slow-processing King, Snohomish, and Pierce.
Is joe on welfare?
If he was raised on welfare and is off it as an adult he did pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Hw much hate must be in your heart to blame someone for the actions of their parents.
@8
It’s not that he or his family had to be on welfare. The poster was pointing out the sheer, unabashed, rank, hypocrisy for someone to scream and shill about spreading wealth when he himself needed government to get out of poverty.
8 – Stamm, it’s your party that believes in frauds and fairy tales.
We prefer reality.
@8:
If this is the case, then the welfare system is working just fine, thank you.
My wife grew up on welfare. Her mother was divorced when she was six, and her father was injured on the job shortly thereafter, and had to go through a re-training program after which he was able to eventually start a business which became comfortably profitable over time. But with him unable to provide much in the way of child support, and my wife’s mother unable to get a job and care for three children at the same time, welfare was the only option.
As for my wife, she graduated from high school at age 16, went on to college on a combination of Basic Aid (later called Pell Grants), combined with federally-subsidized student loans and federally-funded student aid. We married at age 21 while I was just finishing my undergraduate studies and working part-time, and she had two jobs (secretary at the university during the day, Burger King nights and weekends). Her mother moved in with us within six months of us getting married, and we largly supported her until she died some sixteen years later. In my home, anyone having only one job (or less) wasn’t pulling their fare share of the load.
So I would hardly criticize Joe the Plumber for his family having to go on welfare, any more than I would criticize my wife for growing up on welfare. It turned out to be a very good investment of government resources, as my wife has more than paid back into the system many times over what she received from it as a child.
I guess some modern-day conservatives would argue that they should have lived in a hovel and roamed the streets scrounging for food while their mother worked days and nights at below minimum wage, but that wouldn’t exactly be “family values”, would it?
But that’s kind of the point. It’s not that Joe the Plumber is at fault for his family being on welfare when he was a child. I’m not even going to blame him for being behind on his taxes at some point or another, as long as he pays them when he is able, along with penalties and interest.
Our complaint is that (a) it just goes to show McCain’s inability to properly vet people before placing them in important roles (Joe was to be the lynchpin of the final days of his campaign); (b) lots of people need a hand up from time-to-time, including Joe and his family, and (c) this just goes to show the bankruptcy of the neo-conservative idea that low taxes are always good and welfare is always bad, and (d) as an example, Joe the Plumber never represented anything like what the McCain campaign said he did.
I feel sorry for Joe the Plumber. Sure, he personally got used in this process. Sure, he stepped into it by asking a completely hypothetical question about taxes as if it really affected his situation (it didn’t). But the McCain campaign used him, and now he’s having to pay the price personally with the continued bad publicity directed at him.
Rahm Emmanuel accepts the job as Obama’s Chief of Staff.
That’s a tough job. He has three young kids. Only an empty nester should accept that job.
In order to do that job well, he’ll have to completely divorce himself from his family. Oh well, a congressman’s life is like that too I guess.
YLB @ 13: Kind of like Leo McGarry, huh? The West Wing series started out with the collapse of the McGarry marriage due to his work commitments.
But it seems to me that not that many people keep the Chief of Staff job for more than a two or three years. Either that’s the limit of time someone can handle the workload & pressure, or the Chief of Staff is the first one sacrificed if the administration needs a turn-around (real, or symbolically).
Speaking of West Wing:
Another phony movement that will soon be forgotten: the PUMAs. Some right wing sites totally hung their hopes on this sham.
The most hilarious post about these lost people:
http://www.rumproast.com/index.....out_c_o_n/
As with most pre-election HA threads about the WA-08 election, this one is also a victim of short attention span. Why?? Because you HA’ers KNOW you lost. And you don’t want to talk about it! Goldy posts some bad (albeit, true) news about the vote count and you’ve got nothing to say about this race.
YLB @2
. Not true. My msg about this race hasn’t changed for weeks. Reichert’s going to win this thing because he’s the right match for WA-08. Those of us who live in this district KNOW he’s a good man, a great representative and has integrity.
Face it, you backed a serial exaggerator who got busted. Voters take that kind of thing seriously.
i live in WA-08 and i know that reichert is a right wing lapdog who votes for $10b a month giveway to military and contractors to piss down the rathole in iraq and the colonial wars across the stans, who affirmed that he would have voted for preemptive invasion and occupation of iraq if only jennifer dunn hadn’t been there to do it for him, and who, when told that torutre and unlimited detention without charges was unconstitutional, voted for a bill to try to circumvent that ruling (military tribunals act). reichert may be the match for the right but not the right match for the majority of WA-08 once you cross the king county line from gerrymanderville.
Darcy Burner: “I loved economics so much, I got a degree in it from Harvard…”
Nuff said.
Why 8 would vote for Reichert when he is going to be even less effective is beyond me. What a waste of pay.
@19 He did serve a purpose as seat-filler for the dark side when his masters ruled. No more. Like you say, a waste of pay.
…and Reichert’s congressional website listed him holding BA degree till he got caught outright lying rather than Burner’s truth: a degree that’s really from Harvad with the majority of her study in economics…
nuff said.
impish @ 21 – Reichert’s congressional website NEVER misrepresented his degree.
Both Burner’s and Reichert’s educational histories has been posted incorrectly on websites over which neither of them have any control.
And to correct your statement, the majority of Darcy’s study was in Computer Science, NOT economics
diamondshards,
apparently you’ll believe whatever suits your viewpoint rather than looking at the real record… not difficult to do, but… whatever.
I am not sure that this will have much impact, but I have learned that in King County 15 precincts have not been counted and of these 15 look to be located in the 8th congressional district. Five are in the 5th LD and city of Sammamish. Seven are in the 41st LD and in the city of Bellevue. Another three are located in the 11th and could be in or out of the 8th.
These uncounted precincts could amount to between 45,000 and 60,000 votes.
King County elections says the ballots did not read at the polling place and had to be taken to the county elections office and run through a counter. At this point their is no reason they could give as to why these ballots had not been counted. When pressed I was told that they would get around to it today or in the coming days.
Nice. Take your time….why not….go to lunch…get paid…
22 – C’mon. Reichert once posted he had a Bachelor’s from that backwater place he went to.
It was an AA.
Integrity my ass.
The status of this race is that Darcy is done. They count the ballots in the order they arrived. Once people heard about yet another Darcy resume exaggeration, they went with Dave. Now Darcy will have plenty of time to hang out with basement-dwelling nutroot bloggers. See Goldy, all’s not lost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqmOreVPLEI
YLB @ 25. You’re making it up. If you think you’re right, quote the website and we’ll determine if “Reichert once posted….” as you say.
One would think a troll would appreciate someone making shit up.
27 – Nope.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....rt24m.html
Again, integrity my ass.
ylb@29 Here’s a direct quote from the article you link to in your comment:
‘ None of the Web sites with the wrong information are affiliated with Reichert’s campaign.’
So I guess your integrity and your ass DO, in fact, make a perfect match.
No amount of money or bullshit from the looney left will get Do nothing Darcy elected. A democrat tsunami can’t carry her pudgy ass into office.
Latest results have the Burner down around 5,000 votes.
If you dumbshits had supported Rodney Tom you would have gotten this seat.
By By Darcy hopefully this will be the last we hear from this squeaky bitch.
Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooser.
Its over. The flame has burner out – oops, I mean that flame has burned out. Darcy is done. She couldn’t ride the anti-Bush wave, she couldn’t ride the Obama wave. Maybe now she can go back to Harvard and really get that Economics degree or specialization she was talking about.
Its over. The flame has burner out – oops, I mean that flame has burned out. Darcy is done. She couldn’t ride the anti-Bush wave, she couldn’t ride the Obama wave. Maybe now she can go back to Harvard and really get that Economics degree or specialization she was talking about.
For the record. Last paragraph.. official bio. Congressional website…
“David G. Reichert was born in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1950, the oldest of seven children and grandson of the town marshal. His family moved to Washington State in 1951, living first in Renton and later in Kent,
where Reichert attended Kent Meridian High School. He graduated from Concordia Lutheran College in Portland, Oregon, where he played football and met his wife of more than 35 years, Julie. The Reicherts currently live in Auburn and have three grown children, Angela, Tabitha and Daniel, and six grandchildren.
’nuff said.
For the record. Last paragraph.. official bio. Congressional website…
“David G. Reichert was born in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1950, the oldest of seven children and grandson of the town marshal. His family moved to Washington State in 1951, living first in Renton and later in Kent,
where Reichert attended Kent Meridian High School. He graduated from Concordia Lutheran College in Portland, Oregon, where he played football and met his wife of more than 35 years, Julie. The Reicherts currently live in Auburn and have three grown children, Angela, Tabitha and Daniel, and six grandchildren.”
As I said, easy to do..
’nuff said!
For the record. Last paragraph.. official bio. Congressional website…http://reichert.house.gov/
“David G. Reichert was born in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1950, the oldest of seven children and grandson of the town marshal. His family moved to Washington State in 1951, living first in Renton and later in Kent,
where Reichert attended Kent Meridian High School. He graduated from Concordia Lutheran College in Portland, Oregon, where he played football and met his wife of more than 35 years, Julie. The Reicherts currently live in Auburn and have three grown children, Angela, Tabitha and Daniel, and six grandchildren.”
Simply, NOT TRUE. Attened 2 years.
As I said, easy to do..
’nuff said!
For the record. Last paragraph.. official bio. Congressional website…
http://reichert.house.gov/
“David G. Reichert was born in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1950, the oldest of seven children and grandson of the town marshal. His family moved to Washington State in 1951, living first in Renton and later in Kent,
where Reichert attended Kent Meridian High School. He graduated from Concordia Lutheran College in Portland, Oregon, where he played football and met his wife of more than 35 years, Julie. The Reicherts currently live in Auburn and have three grown children, Angela, Tabitha and Daniel, and six grandchildren.”
Simply NOT true… attended 2 yrs.
As I said, easy to do..
’nuff said!
oops! Sorry for repetition
As for Darcy.. the following from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.....and_family
“In high school, Burner was a National Merit Scholar. She worked multiple jobs, both part time and full time, to earn her way through Harvard, graduating in 1996 with a B.A. in computer science with a special field of economics.[2] Her jobs included working for Lotus Development, Asymetrix, and, starting in 2000, as a lead product manager for Microsoft .NET.[3]”
2 minutes of research. Easy to do.
Opinions backed by fact generally carry more credibility than opinion backed by wishful thinking.
’nuff said.
The Riechert bio is correct. He got an AA and that was the only degree they offered at the time. Therefore he “graduated” from Concordia.
Jesus Imp you really are a dumbshit.
Time to start printing the Burner 2010 signs. “Darcy Burner for Congress…a Burner that will never go out.”