2008 Burner-Reichert
posted by on November 6 at 16:30 PM
The count goes on, with the race still too close to call. The latest tally:
Reichert: 50.46
Burner: 49.54
What’s going on is very similar to what happened last time around, when it took several days to sort out a winner and Reichert ultimately prevailed by 3 percentage points.
The 8th Congressional District sits in both King and Pierce Counties and—also like last time—the King County votes are breaking somewhat in favor of Burner while the Pierce County votes are breaking heavily in favor of Reichert. Burner will need to really run up the numbers in King County in order to prevail.
So far she’s not doing that, but it’s impossible to know where things will move as the count goes on. Possibly a good sign for Burner: over the course of the day today, the number of votes separating her and Reichert narrowed to 1,965 out of 214,781 total votes cast.
Why can't I find any pictures of Charlie Crist or Dave Reichert with their shirts off?
The internet is a race. Will someone please beat me? (so I can beat off)
there were more votes cast for reicher/burner in the WA 8th - 214K so far - than there were for stevens/begich in AK - about 212K.
someone explain how the senate is fair again?
Pierce Co voting for Reichert? It's so depressing when people get brainwashed into voting against their economic self-interest.
POOR PEOPLE: YOU ARE NOT GOING TO WIN THE LOTTERY. THE TOP MARGINAL RATE WILL NEVER BE A PROBLEM FOR YOU. DITTO ESTATE TAXES. GET WITH THE FUCKING PROGRAM.
The 11:30pm update from King County did not help Burner. She is now trailing by 5,300 votes. There are still a lot of votes to count, but this is not an encouraging trend.
11:30pm update at http://vote.wa.gov/elections/wei/Results.aspx?ElectionID=26&JurisdictionTypeID=3&ViewMode=All
Reichert: 123,585
Burner: 118,253
She's down by 369 votes right now - the gap is continuing to narrow.
I'm an idiot, disregard. =P