Bad news, Washington elf-lovers! Dennis Kucinich is staying in Ohio:

After months of agonizing that included with a flirtation with a bid in Washington, Kucinich announced Wednesday he had filed to run for reelection in Ohio’s new 9th District — a decision that sets him up for a primary with his longtime Democratic colleague, Rep. Marcy Kaptur.

Eli has been covering the Kucinich flirtation for a while now, and Kucinich has been actively wooing Washington state since the summer. It'll be interesting to see if Kaptur makes his visits to the Northwest into a campaign issue—she's got some pretty convincing evidence implying that Kucinich cares more about being in Congress than about who's sending him there.