I guess the voters in Washington didn't get tricked easily with Rossi's party label change.

[LiberalFighter]

I wonder if any of the voters were confused by the GOP label and decided to vote for Gregoire cause they couldn't find a Republican?

[AlCzervik]

1. 2 gopers running here minus the party id both lost.

loved it.

[cemaphonic]

2. heh

While it wasn't the nailbiter it was last time, it was a lot closer than the Obama/McCain split in WA. Looks like lots of people bought into Dino's "I'm for change too!" message.

[juno jones]

3. One small factor in the tight race might have been the WASL.

Something I've read in comments on other sites which made sense: a lot of younger voters were voting against Gregoire because of her percieved involvement with the WASL. Thank goodness we were able to get in a superintendant of Ed. that wants to abolish the monolithic, one-size-fits all nature of that test.

[cemaphonic]

4. Yeah, that's true

[norepubsin08]

6. My wife is a teacher in the Tacoma School District

and she will definitely echo your sentiments!

[busybl]

5. they keep forgetting we can read

[mondo joe]

7. And it was scary. Rossi had 24/7 attacks, and Gregoire did very little to defend herself.

I really thought she was going down.

I have acquaintances who are lobbyists in Olympia and they said the widespread understanding among the politicos is that Gregoire feels as a public servant her record should stand for itself, and she shouldn't have to engage in that sort of thing.

I'm glad it worked out. We'd have been royally fucked with a Rossi administration.

[Touchdown]

8. I was in Yakima in Sep. Mom asked what GOP was.

Some people really don't know. I told her the truth. "Greedy Oil Party".:D