2008 The Latest Results in Selected Races
posted by on November 6 at 11:24 AM
As of 10:30 this morning…
Proposition 1, mass-transit expansion, is winning 59 to 41 percent.
Initiative 985 is failing 59.78 to 40.22 percent.
Initiative 1000 is winning 58.67 to 41.33 percent.
Initiative 1029 is winning 73.45 to 26.55 percent.
Dave Reichert is beating Darcy Burner in the Eighth Congressional District by 50.49 to 49.51 percent—a margin of 1,853 votes.
Democrat Jim McIntire is defeating Republican Allan Martin for state treasurer, 51.93 to 48.07 percent.
Republican Rob McKenna is defeating Democrat John Ladenburg for attorney general, 58.71 to 41.29 percent.
Democrat Peter Goldmark is defeating Republican Doug Sutherland for lands commissioner 50.79 to 49.21 percent.
Randy Dorn is defeating Terry Bergeson for state schools superintendent, 51.17 to 48.83 percent.
Reuven Carlyle is defeating fellow Democrat John Burbank for state representative in the 36th district, 65.21 to 34.69 percent.
Scott White is defeating fellow Democrat Gerry Pollet for state rep in the 46th district, 71.56 to 28.44 percent.
Tim Bradshaw is defeating Sue Parisien for King County Superior Court judge, 58.93 to 41.07 percent.
Holly Hill is defeating Julia Garratt for KC Superior Court judge, 54.18 to 45.82 percent.
Barbara Mack is defeating Jean Reitschel for KC Superior Court judge, 52.31 to 47.69 percent.
And every King County charter amendment is winning except charter amendment 7, which would have increased the signature threshold to change the county charter (essentially, its constitution) by citizen initiative.
I know you were just reporting things in Seattle and in the Statewide races but I must mention that incumbent Democratic Senator Marilyn Rasmussen is now trailing in the 2nd District! What are the cities of Yelm, Eatonville and Orting thinking?!!!
Republican Don Benton has just pulled ahead for the Senate position in the 17th District.
Here is my latest report:
http://www.seattlegayscene.com/2008/11/election-update-for-thursday-november-6.html
Wow. If Terry Bergeson gets beaten, I may get to move back to Washington someday! Maybe life won't suck for teachers so much anymore!
Burner losing is a tragedy.
Maybe if more Sloggers had volunteered for her...?? Maybe going down to Showbox with 4 hrs. of voting left in 8th CD wasn't the best way for urban folks to show their support for change?
On election day I saw multiple groups of folks waving signs for Obama .... all over Seattle. They tended to look fairly well off what with REI goretex jackets, taking the day off, etc.
I saw fifty people. Doutbless there were more.
They couldn't have gone over to Kirkland and found 1500 more votes for Burner?
Fuck you, Dave Reichert.
What were you doing, PC?
@3
Um, Susan, remember when you pissed all over the idea of Deaniac-like carpetbaggers from the city invading the suburbs and small towns and red states because the hicks and rubes would be offended? You said urban hipsters had no business knocking on those doors. Forgot already? Funny how after it's all over you have all these clever post-hoc ideas.
Your political instincts suck. You're always fucking wrong. That means you should get a clue and shut up. At least don't come along after the fact try to rewrite history.
I wish I would have worked for Burner. I'm just not in the 8th so I didn't think to. Her Iraq plan, her education views, and even her damn cute grey t-shirt(). What can I say? I'm anti-war and pro tech.
Plus she's running against a moron.
I really wanted her to win. I really wish I would have done something to make it happen.
Can anyone tell me why 985 is failing? I know it was a terrible idea but the description on the ballot seemed straight forward and like a good idea most would support, so I'm a little surprised it is failing so convincingly. Any idea where the 'No' traction came from?
@3
Damn, I could have ditched my skinny jeans and AA T and put on some khaki's and a blue dress shirt. I sure wish I would have now.
PC spent all Election Day on the Slog, telling people that they needed to be out on the streets doing last-minute campaigning. Way to go, hypocrite.
"remember when you pissed all over the idea of Deaniac-like carpetbaggers from the city invading the suburbs and small towns and red states because the hicks and rubes would be offended?"
When was that?
#3 Most Sloggers don't live in that District. They could only do so much.
Clearly, Burner is smart and has great ideas. But it's a fair guess that to many of the VOTERS IN THE 8TH, she still looks seriously underqualified for Congress. (Harvard BA vs. "The Sheriff" - and the Seattle Times' lousy reporting on her supposed "econ minor" "controversy" sure didn't help her in that respect). She's now had two shots at Reichert in very favorable elections for Democrats, and probably still hasn't WON.
Maybe Burner's just not the right candidate for that district, at this time, given her thin resume? Maybe she should run for the state legislature, or something else, and the party and the netroots should find a person who has both ideology AND experience working in his/her favor to run in the 8th?
Do Democrats want to WIN the 8th, or do they want to run another Heidi Behrens-Benedict over and over?
Is Brad Owen tuning his guitar?
ECB--you gloated about Prop 1 getting on the ballot, which I thought was pretty annoying given the fact that it still needed to pass.
Now is the time to gloat.
@8 about I-985
People living outside of Pugetopolis saw HOV lanes and congestion relief in the ballot title, and translated that to "money for Seattle."
Inside Puget Sound region, plenty of voters got that opening up HOV lanes made congestion worse.
Almost every paper around the state opposed it. While editorial endorsements usually don't matter much (Stranger excepted), it is a good indicator of the breadth of reasons to oppose it.
Finally, it is a myth that elected officials need to mollify SOV drivers or face "driver backlash." Indeed, it is the opposite, as shown by the defeat of RTID, the Alaska Way Viaduct vote, ST, I-985, Transit Now, Rossi's defeat, R-51 a number of years ago. Voters want solutions that speak to our environmental aspirations as well as our transportation needs, as shown by vote after vote.
Obama/Rossi voters almost make sense if you squint hard enough, but what the hell is with so many Obama/Reichert voters??? That vote makes no sense at ALL. Absolutely heartbreaking. I blame the Seattle Times and hope it takes up the new opportunity allowed by I-1000.
@8: Michael at 16 called it. I-985 lost by huge numbers in Eastern Washington and won in just a single county (Pierce). You have to love that Tim Eyman's beloved Eastern Washington tax-cutters turned on him because he's a damn Puget Sounder who wants to spend public money.