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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Politics Who Won't Survive the 34th District Death Match?

Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:47 PM

Last night at Ed Murray's shindig, the hot speculation was on which two candidates would survive the primary in the race to represent the 34th District: Marcee Stone, the neighborhoody type who cut her teeth fighting cell-phone towers; Mike Heavey, the spawn of a former state representative with the same recognizable surname; or the dashing Joe Fitzgibbon, who has experience working in Olympia even though he's barely a zygote. It's been a mud-slinging battle so far, including allegations of crosstown carpetbaggery, and a fury of door-knocking and mailers. So who, exactly, will be shut out of the general?

To the polls!

Who won't make it through the primary?

This is where we'd normally say Slog polls are legally binding—but they're not! Only the election is! And you can tune in to Slog tonight for all the parties, all the booze, the tears, the joy, and careful planning for tomorrow's hangovers.

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With mail in ballots dribbling in, we probably won't know till the end of the week at the earliest.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on August 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM

Marcee is toast.

Posted by wisepunk on August 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM

@1) During last year's election--an all mail election--many of the races were decided pretty decisively on election night. Some weren't, of course, but most results were pretty clear.

Posted by Dominic Holden on August 17, 2010 at 4:08 PM

Since it will mostly be old people voting, I predict the results are unknowable.

Why? Cause young people are too busy watching True Blood and trying to get on reality TV shows.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 17, 2010 at 4:22 PM

This is a tough one. I mean, Heavey's getting through, but the other two...

Marcee's been around for awhile, she doesn't look pre-pubescent, and she's been working the district hard.

Joe's been one of the point-people for Nelson, and will likely draw support from Burien and Ivan Weiss.

Difficult to say...difficult to say. It's all about turnout of young voters, though. I'm guessing older voters are likely going to vote Heavey or Stone.

Posted by michaelp on August 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM