Reply #18: Judge paid off??!!! [View All]

[customerserviceguy]

It was unanimous. You really can't suggest that all of them were paid off.

Really, when it comes down to it, you have to acknowledge that the problem with the WA gubernatorial election was the Democratic candidate. Christine Gregoire has statewide name familiarity, in a state that always leans heavily Democratic. Usually, in an important statewide race, that counts for about 53-55% of the vote, right there. She ran against a near-total unknown. I've lived in WA state for over 35 years, and I read the news a LOT, but never heard of Dino Rossi until he declared his candidacy for governor several months ago.

I was a vote counter for Grays Harbor County last Thursday. My table counted five precincts and Gregoire only won one of them. I saw a LOT of signs for Rossi everywhere I drove around here, but very, very few for Gregoire. She obviously didn't inspire a lot of people out in a fairly reliably Democratic county, even though she won our county by a couple of percentage points.

Somehow, enough people were upset with her to flip this from a sure-win Democratic victory to a cliffhanger, even though people were voting for an unknown quantity in Rossi. After this is over, Gregoire better do some soul-searching to figure out why it was even this close to begin with.