WA(8) -- Dem is currently in lead, what's going on ?

[eppur_se_muova]

This is mostly in eastern WA, which runs red. Have the exurbs expanded enough to tip this district blue ?

Is this just order in which ballots are reported?

[TomDaisy]

1. there are 6 congressional districts in Oregon. do you mean 2?

[eppur_se_muova]

2. LOL! Worse than that, I meant WA(8)! nt

[Qutzupalotl]

3. The map on Google's election results page shows WA-08

starting below Olympia, going down to and including Vancouver, then north to just east of Seattle.

WA-04 and WA-05 are eastern Washington and bright red.

[brooklynite]

4. For years they had a moderate Republican Congresswoman...

...who lost her Primary to an Election Denier after she voted to Impeach Trump.

This seat was always seen as vulnerable; the new guy tipped it over the edge.

[regnaD kciN]

6. That's WA3, not 8...

8 was a reliable Republican district from its founding until 2018, when we flipped it.

[FrankBooth]

9. No, that was WA-3

Jamie Herrera Butler was the "moderate" GOP Paul Ryan loving Rep in SW Washington right on the Oregon border. She was excommunicated after voting to impeach dotard over Jan 6. Q-loving election denier Joe Kent knocked her out in the primary, and now Dems are looking at a pickup in a seat they'd not been able to win even during the wave of '18.

WA-8 is Kim Schrier in suburbs East of Seattle and stretching into Central Washington. A lot of rural areas and some burbs. Schrier first won the seat in '18, a seat that had never been Democratic before her win. She's about to be elected for the third time over another Q-nut.

[albacore]

5. Schrier(D) has 52.6%... Larkin (Qpub) has 47.4% nt

[regnaD kciN]

7. It's NOT "mostly in eastern Washington"...

It’s my district, and really weirdly-drawn, as it includes Seattle’s eastern suburbs and stretches over the Cascades to places like Wenatchee and Chelan in the east. Practically the definition of a swing district.

[Wounded Bear]

10. This. I live next door in WA09...

WA08 got redrawn quite a bit in 2020, but it looks like it will survive as blue.

Schrier kind of hedged a bit and ran some ads pointing out how she "stood up to" Biden on a couple of minor issues. She did a lot of good ads including farmers and local business folks. She's a moderate Dem, but definitely not a Manchin type in any sense. She emphasized her pro-choice side as well.

Lot of votes to count yet but I think she'll stand.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Thanks, didn't know about that. I was just kind of guessing it was growth between censuses.

Should that be censi ?

Exurbs expanding into the country everywhere.

[Trailrider1951]

12. You're correct. WA 8 is my district. I'm in Pierce County

near Orting. Kim Schrier is my rep and she's a big D! I moved here in 2017 and been voting for her ever since!


edited for typo

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. WA 3 is doing the same thing and it's a good thing

That Joe Kent guy that is a Nazi without any record of employment is losing to Perez.

[Wounded Bear]

11. WA03 is a microcosm of the whole election...

moderate repub primaried and ousted by a trumper. Voters bend blue to a moderate Dem. Not done counting yet, but it appears to be trending blue.