WA-Sen: Seattle Times Calls It For Murray

The lone spot of good news in all this for Dino Rossi? Now he won’t have all those Senatorial duties cluttering up his planning activities for his 2012 gubernatorial run.

Sen. Patty Murray pulled further ahead this afternoon , taking 68 percent of the nearly 70,000 votes counted in King County on Thursday.

The King County boost widened Murray’s statewide lead to more than two percentage points — nearly 50,000 votes — over Republican Dino Rossi statewide even as Rossi-leaning counties began to report new totals. The biggest Rossi counties, Spokane and Clark, both reported results today but his gains there were swamped by King County.

Also worth noting: Rick Larsen in WA-02 seems to be moving into healthier shape against John Koster. He’s now up more than 1,400 according to the SoS, suggesting that Dem-friendly precincts are late to report in the 2nd too.

142 thoughts on “WA-Sen: Seattle Times Calls It For Murray”

  1. I mentioned in an earlier thread that I think the 2004 Rossi might have pulled this out.  But his 3d statewide run in 6 years meant there was just too much baggage holding him down.  Its hard to attack someone as a “career politician” when its seems you’re always running for office yourself.

    I also never got the sense Rossi was really enthused about running, he waited until this Spring to even announce officially he was in the race. I think the high GOP muckety mucks talked him into running, but his heart wasn’t really in it.

  2. The man only ever had any appeal during his first run and that was more about lashing out at a longtime Dem hold in Washington than about him. He has slowly ground down since then, and he would be better off aiming his sights lower. Maybe he can run against Sam Reed to keep the I wuz robbed trend going for 4 more years.

    I know they did well in the state legislature and got a Congressional seat, but still, this year should have been better for the WAGOP. Murray, even though she works hard and is always underestimated, was almost the picture of a senator who would go in a wave election. Not only did she win, but the GOP did not get any of the surprise House wins they got in 1994. Instead they just got an open seat, and that was not as big as expected, since Herriera did not live up to the hype.

    I guess she joins Reichert and Rossi is also never really living up to the hype.  

  3. Neither are terribly charismatic or telegenic.  Both are pretty good at the inside game in the Senate.  And both are remarkably tough during campaign season.

  4. At 6:00 pm Rossi called Patty Murray to offer his congratulations. Bryan Johnson made the announcement moments ago on KOMO. Murray will hold a press conference later this evening.

  5. DO NOT enter a Senate race as late as Rossi did and win. I have said it from the moment he got in. It just does not happen. Rossi got soooooo much hype from Republicans but he was really nothing special. I mean he did as good as any other Republican could have done but not great at all. Also Crisitunity, he will also have more time to give seminars. I just don’t think Rossi’s heart was ever in this race.  

  6. Or is that just Snark?

    After losing 3 statewide races in 6 years, I honestly would not be surprised if he tries to make it 4 in 8.

    What a loser.  Just end your career already, sheesh.

  7. But seriously, the West Coast has remained remarkably resilient for Democrats. Assuming the Republicans defeat Costa and lose the other uncalled races, we gained a net of one seat from the whole Pacific area. And Vidak will likely be gone in 2012. We couldn’t even win OR-Gov.

  8. It’s good to see but still hard to predict what will happen. He trails by more than 2,000 votes in Snohomish County, where most of the remaining votes will come from. Also, there are no “precincts reporting” as such — the district is all vote by mail, so it’s just up to who mailed their votes late, and which votes are counted late.

  9. I think some of you SSPers may appreciate this

    WASHINGTON-In the wake of what is being called the deadliest midterm election in the nation’s history, Washington’s sole surviving politician, Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, emerged from the rubble of the Capitol building Wednesday to announce his intention to rebuild the fallen U.S. government.

    The events of Tuesday night-which included live televised images of Sen. Harry Reid taking a gavel to the head of Sen. Mitch McConnell while Rep. Barney Frank repeatedly smashed the face of Undersecretary for Food Safety Elisabeth Hagen against a marble column-left most Americans believing their entire government had perished in the post-election bloodbath. But the miraculous survival of DeFazio points to a possible way forward.

    http://www.theonion.com/articl

  10. I’m wondering what you all think of our chances in the 2011 races.  There are three governorships up.

    KY-Gov:  Beshear seems to have good/fair approval ratings.  Do you all think he can survive?  Who could the Republicans send against him?

    MS-Gov:  Barbour is term limited, and post-2010, there are two conservadems out of the job.  Do you think Childers or Taylor would be the best candidate?  And what are their chances in the general?

    LA-Gov:  Jindal seems pretty popular, but I don’t know if he’s invincible.  Could Melancon be roped into this?  Or Chris John?  Or Don Cazayoux?

  11. I’m wondering what you all think of our chances in the 2011 races.  There are three governorships up.

    KY-Gov:  Beshear seems to have good/fair approval ratings.  Do you all think he can survive?  Who could the Republicans send against him?

    MS-Gov:  Barbour is term limited, and post-2010, there are two conservadems out of the job.  Do you think Childers or Taylor would be the best candidate?  And what are their chances in the general?

    LA-Gov:  Jindal seems pretty popular, but I don’t know if he’s invincible.  Could Melancon be roped into this?  Or Chris John?  Or Don Cazayoux?

  12. Buerkle currently leads by 659 votes, but Tuesday’s preliminary results do not include 11,645 absentee ballots, nearly 8,731 of which have been mailed back to their respective counties so far.

    . . . .

    Cayuga County mailed 148 absentee ballots, Wayne County mailed 1,683 ballots, Onondaga County mailed 8,154 ballots and Monroe County mailed 1,660 ballots.

    Onondaga County, which contains a majority of the 25th District’s voters, is the only county Maffei won, according to Tuesday’s preliminary results.

    http://auburnpub.com/news/loca

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