McKenna losing to Inslee. Cantwell, Marriage Equality, Legalization win...

[freshwest]

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From the official state website, wa. gov:

Jay Inslee (Prefers Democratic Party)
772,917 51.68%

Rob McKenna (Prefers Republican Party)
722,663 48.32%

Total Votes 1,495,580 100%

Two regressive measures passed. I need a hug. But at least my heart's still in one piece. Check reply below for the latest totals here.

[PowerToThePeople]

1. i voted against charter schools

it appears we may still get them.

[freshwest]

2. I voted against it, too. And #1185, the one by Eyeman to get us into the same mess as CA.

But I just talked to someone watching teevee and Cantwell was there and McKenna has conceded. So the wa.gov website was correct. Also, the teabagger running for Secretary of State lost as well.

I'm dissapointed the charter schools and all the other regressive measures keep on passing. We are not getting our message out as well, but then we don't have enough media voices here and the papers have gone GOP and Libertarian if not Tea Party. So the battle for maintaining progressive WA will continue for a long time.

[cemaphonic]

3. 1185 scares the crap out of me

Hopefully Eyman is up to his usual lax standards in passing constitutional muster in his initiatives. I'm sure both sides are already preparing to sic the lawyers.

But overall, more good then bad in WA tonight.

[freshwest]

5. Yes, this is a rehash of one found unConstitutional, as the rebuttal states. I'm concerned about

The lack of voter education to overcome hate radio and these Randian, Norquist voices here.

We lost Sanders to a conservative on the State Supreme Court, a real blow. She'd likely allow #1185 to stand.

I'm not seeing much improvement in the legislature, and the list is too long for me to count the numbers. I was interested in Ryu, DelBene, McAuliffe and Urquhart.

Inslee may be faced with the same repuke obstruction Gregoire had to deal with.

But overall, especially in terms of Inslee and Marriage Equality, it was a great night.

[marlakay]

4. I am worried about this one

And for teachers here...but happy about other stuff.

[eridani]

6. Charter schools may still go down--they did not break 40% in King County

Last I checked, anyway. King County sent out over a million ballots, and is expecting 87% of them back. It is always the slowest to finish because of the sheer size of the electorate.

I agree that we just don't invest enough in fighting the Eyman crap. Maybe if we defended "public goods" instead of "taxes?"

[freshwest]

10. People seem to have a disconnect between taxes and anything public.

I haven't heard anyone 'defend taxes' but the philosophical argument that you get what you pay for isn't made. Especially with the Seattle Times editorials disparaging progressives issues. And hate radio and CT pushing that paying taxes is going to fund the black helicopters, etc.

[rhett o rick]

7. Do you have a link? As of 5 hours ago McKenna hadnt conceeded.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019621861_elexgovernor07m.html

Tell me what I am doing wrong? See here.

http://vote.wa.gov/results/current/Governor.html

[Upton]

8. You're not doing anything wrong...

McKenna/Inslee is close enough, it's probably going to take several days of counting before you see any conceding..

[rhett o rick]

9. I am curious where the OP got the idea McKenna conceeded.

The latest I've seen from the state at:

http://vote.wa.gov/results/current/Governor.html

was updated 11:26 last night with a total 1,900,471 votes counted for governor.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

12. Yes I saw Mc Kenna's 15 minute rant last night

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and he indicated he senses victory and called for patience.I had the tube on watched national and international coverage and had the computer going too. Its a close race but it did look as though Jay will do ok in the outcome as of 2 A.M. this morning .

Tis true King county takes longer to add it all up. Mc Kenna had some odd 37 % king county votes according to kiro's watch -,that in part is where Mc Kenna remained hopeful they would reach the desired 40 % in the final tally of King county votes.

I must say Mc Kenna's air of confidence got me to look a little deeper into their angle on it.

Horseshoes. They don't have it .

On edit, Mc kenna's manor of oratory is far better than Rossi's or McGavic's -he a good reader and retains what he reads well- he seems sure footed in his execution of what was written for him ! But he didn't memorize his lines like all good actors do ! Boo on him !

The working across party line bit seemed logical but you do have to remember through his words that McKenna is a republican party national lock stepper ,therefore you cannot believe a word he says. Not in part in or out of context.


Simply except Mc Kenna is suffering from Romnesia. Romnesia in both Mckenna and Romney's case ,there are others as well, in the after the election affect places the poor soul in a total state of denial . Same as Romney ,Mc Kenna was blown away and he can't see it or feel it YET. McKenna is sure he can win this just like Romney was sure he was president. You will read about that when Romney's inner circle breaks apart and the truth to tell books come out about it.

Romney believed he had it all in his bag. Mc Kenna is still in that bag.

It's a sad state really .

Think about what time it was when the election was called in the presidents favor. Our polls here on the west coast had just closed. In the east it seemed according to news casting, Ohio and Florida were the two big cheeses in the reporting. Although Ohio had been placed in the probable Obama column,changed from leaning Obama to probable. Suddenly California results blew in along with the others and don't you know it all came to a abrupt end. In about two minutes Romney was totally blown away . 15 minutes after the polls closed on the wast coast ,the presidential election was over- almost seemingly in a snap instant.

Romney was frantically try'en to have his statement pieced together acknowledging his defeat , and hadn't even called the president to acknowledge his defeat.

On or about 9:30 -10:00 P.M. in there somewhere at the early count Mckenna appeared to be holding his ground-but that quickly changed to a close race with Jay quickly taking the lead.
Not by a huge margin but ahead in the counting process. Such as it goes.

Jay didn't know the president was addressing the nation with his victory speech at the same time J popped in . Bad timing for J. And he needs better people in his inner circle-he should have been informed the president was speaking to the nation.
We can do better.

[rhett o rick]

14. Never turn your back on a republican. nm

[The empressof all]

11. My guess McKenna is gonna want a recount

He loves wasting our money...Just like he did when he went after ACA even though the vast majority of Washingtonians supported it. Blech...I can't even stand to look at him. Good news in my district though Rosemary McAuliffe won over Dawn McCrazy (aka-the roach). Teabagger Dawn spent a great deal of her husbands oil money to try to get that seat. You have no idea how much that made me smile.....

[rhett o rick]

13. Do you know what percentage is needed to preclude a recount? nm

[The empressof all]

15. I'm not sure

Remember what Rossi put Gregoire through though...I would expect the same behavior from McKenna. I did a quick google search and only found rules from 2004 which would require recount at one half of one percent. My guess is they've been amended at some point since then.

[rhett o rick]

16. Thanks for the info Empress. Let's hope it's not close enough to

allow a recount.

[easychoice]

17. has he caved?

http://www.khq.com/story/20033529/mckenna-were-going-to-ask-you-to-wait-a-day-or-two

I am not sure he has...

Nothing would delight me more than for him to slither back under his rotting log and hide.

[freshwest]

18. For this article posted the next day to say that only 40% had been counted, seems to be earlier...

But the votes are still coming in, correct. Here is the latest:

Last updated on 11/07/2012 4:29 PM

Governor

Jay Inslee (Prefers Democratic Party)
975,839 51.31%

Rob McKenna (Prefers Republican Party)
926,190 48.69%

Total Votes 1,902,029 100%

At this point, Inslee leads by over 50K votes. I don't know if this includes King County where the GOP/McKenna camp paid people to go and pick up ballots. McKenna may be whislting in the dark for Karl Rove. But Rove's math didn't elect Mitt Romney, either.

[freshwest]

19. Also, the Dem is now behind in the SoS race by 10K. But it's not over. I posted too soon, I guess.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

20. kiro just reported the lead reduced to 30,000

and the count was temporarily stopped.It looks as though he has a comfortable lead but thus far there is no certainty.
Jay was on the tibe appearing to be confident and maling plans for transition.

But McKenna also express's confidence.
Again McKenna is horseshoes but the counting ain't done so the game is still on untill it's over.

It will not be a repeat of 04, Makenna is not that stupid.

[freshwest]

22. May it be so. I'm particularly concerned about the SoS. With what we've seen in other states, and

her statement in the first voters pamphlet, she's a Teahadist.

We know what they're capable of doing. I think part of it, and I pointed it out to others when voting to check, since not all follow the names that wel, is that she was the top of the list.

In most of the races, the Dem was at the top. I know these are set by who filed first, but consistency would be good. D, I and L comes before R, it would be easier.

Thanks for your comment and confidence.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

21. kiro just reported the lead reduced to 30,000

and the count was temporarily stopped.It looks as though he has a comfortable lead but thus far there is no certainty.
Jay was on the tube appearing to be confident and making plans for transition.

But McKenna also expresses confidence.
Again McKenna is horseshoes but the counting ain't done so the game is still on until it's over.

It will not be a repeat of 04, McKenna is not that stupid. Even if it came down to just but 1000 votes, Mc Kenna would not risk falling into the Rossi column.I imagine if he went that route ,Rossi would put him up in one his rentals while the thing plays out, he may even send over his friend the math professor from the U of W to help juggle the numbers,not that it would help any.

I don't think Rossi would bother to be seen with McKenna though. Maybe he would I dono.

He didn't visit West I do know that.

It seems I double posted by mistake.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

23. Yesterdays news reported Romney

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canceled out all credit cards tied to his campaign the minute he walked off the stage after having had his final moment. The Romney campaign staffers were put out in the cold left to pay their own hotel expenses ,meals,travel and so fourth. I imagine that was a cold night in hell for them to find out those credit cards did not work when checking out !


They all got left out on the field !

But it does not end there. Mc Kenna too was left out on the field as well as other republican national party lock steppers.McKenna's confidence is based on some pretty sophisticated demographics. But where did they get it ?

Romney was sure he was already president going into election day-they were certain,not just over confident ,but absolutely sure .

Romney thought he had it all in his bag and McKenna is still in that bag,but that bag was left out on the field. It's contents is trash left for pick up in a indecent manor. The Romney campaign should be fined for littering and made to pay for the clean up !

Demographics , .

Funny how it is denial works. Rove showed us that election night, so did Romney and some others. MaKenna is not immune to it. Yes denial.