Shh, don't give Ed and Jamie more ways to explain why a certain something won't get done yet again this year.

does anybody know why on real clear politics, in the state by state national presidential '08 results, every state has 100% counted their popular vote except for washington and oregon? which are 93, and 97 percent counted, respectively?

I am sure the $5 Billion shortfall will REALLY help the Democrats out next election.

Perhaps our Democratic Party needs to pull it's collective head out of it's ass and actually start governing?

Because some people in Kent can't count. (unused "joke" from Almost Live cira 1992).

They're like cockaroaches! You stamp them out and they creep back. Keep stomping!

Seriously, we've had a Democratic majority in the state legislature AND the governor's office, and what do we have to show for it? Mostly, just less harm than a Republican-controlled state would give us, but nobody gets excited to vote for someone who's merely "less bad" than the opposition.

David Spring is a fucking nutcase. I met him, and I'm a lifelong Democrat, and I voted for his Republican opponent.

Hi, Will.

Neither party has yet learned to play the top-two game aggressively. When one or both do, it's a brave new world.

@2 - because you could mail in your ballot on election night at any post office. Including ones in other states and countries.

It takes time for mail from Iraq to arrive here.

Rethuglicans are so intolerant! They must all be killed!

Will is quite right that 2010 holds promise for Republicans after actually having a good recruitment year even with Obama kicking ass at the top of the ticket. It all depends how Gregoire handles her budget problems, because if she stumbles she won't have Bush around to distract people.

Looking at which Senate seats are up next cycle the only two potential Democratic pickups after sweeping 2006 are Pam Roach and Dale Brandland. On the flip side, Republicans can target most of those seats they lost in 2006 but it will all depend on how permanent the Democratic dominance of the suburbs is if they can take back a few of those seats.

I think every progressive Seattle person needs to send 50.00 and then thousands of us need to go work to get Pam Roach out on her ass - and hope she will mutter something about those Seattle homos and reds and greens and how they ganged up on her, etc, etc

she is the worst of the lousey

let' do it, via the grass roots, are dems really in the new era? I doubt it

It would be hard for the GOP to go any lower in WA state than it was after the 2006 election. So yeah, they gain one seat in each. Big deal. Hardly bucking the national trend. They've been marginal for a few years in WA state, whereas in other places they were much more competitive until 2008.