Via Taniel, some good news: The AP has called WA-09 for Dem Rep. Adam Smith, over Republican Dick Muri. Local media called this one yesterday (see here and here), but I guess the AP wanted to be cautious. Also, I’m the millionth person to say this, but Washington really needs to switch to an Oregon-style in-by-election-day voting system, not the postmarked-by-election-day regime they currently have.
Rep. Rick Larsen just inched into his first lead in WA-2, albeit a narrow one: 397 votes! (30% of ballots remain to be counted.)
http://elections.komonews.com/…
Net gain of about 10,000 votes…I think this one is pretty much done!
I think that the medal for best pollster of cycle goes to Suffolk, were much better than runner-up PPP, they only missed FL-GOV and that’s it! Got CA-SEN CA-GOV CA-AG IL-GOV IL-SEN FL-SEN FL other races, CT-GOV CT-SEN NV-SEN! NV-GOV MA-GOV and other MA races right.
Maybe she got a little bit audacious? She predicted that Angle, Crist, Whitman, and freaking O’Donnell would win.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/b…
She may be right on Murkowski winning, though.
Glad to see Washington is avoiding its 1994 fate of a six-seat loss. I actually wish some of the seats we lost this time had happened in Dem-friendly places like Washington so that they’d be easier to regain. Instead our losses seem clustered in places where they’ll be hard to pick up again.
Also over at least 615,000 votes still to be counted in Washington.
http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/W…
Good news is that it appears most are from Dem leaning areas.
How is redistricting done here? By the legislature or by some good government commission?
If the former, does Washington have a reputation for partisan gerrymandering? If so, I would suspect the Dem-controlled legislature and Dem governor could easily pass a plan that easily flips WA-08 and/or WA-03 to the Dems in 2012.
On a related note, how many seats could the Dem-controlled redistricting process in Illinois flip in 2012 — without creating a Pennsylvania or Geogia style dummymander?
I’m not willing to disenfrachise voters by trusting the postal system to deliver the votes on time of those unable to reach drop boxes. It’s a sacrifice to our patience that I think is worth it for democracy. Besides, we get all the suspense!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…