Anybody but Darcy, please!!!

Hobbs, who can win, or Ruderman, who might. I just tried to go to Shawn O'Donnell's, a Republican owned restaurant here in the first district, for Millie Judge's party. ( she's running for judge LOL ) When I got there it turned out that John Koster's victory party was there and the parking lot was full of fancy Republican SUVs! I went home, should have never left the Gay Men's Task Force picnic tonight where at least my dog was having fun. Maybe I'll go back out later.

more pics of Cienna in those tights!

Quotable Ohio State QB Art Schlichter is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence.

We killed the poll, which might make the post visible in the mobile version. The TSARY are out tonight. Sorry.

@6, it was 404'ing me something fierce. Thank you!

Gonzales! Yippee!

No word from the Fighting 47th?

Meanwhile...Bristol Palin on tolerance:

To the Left, “tolerance” means agreeing with them on, well, everything. To me, tolerance means learning to live and work with each other when we don’t agree – and won’t ever agree. So if I have a gay dance partner, we may have some interesting discussions about morality, marriage, and whether the government made him a great dancer because it built the roads that he drove on to dance practice.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpali…

And the levies doing well, and Sanders not doing well!

In the immortal words of Judge Elihu Smails, "You'll get nothing and like it!"

Question, and be honest.

How many of the 4% of votes that went for Rob Hill, are people who really wanted McKenna but who saw the first person named "Rob" and voted for him?

Ganesh? What are you doing there?

Pictures of glaring McKenna staffers, please?

Is it my imagination or are these results kinda amazing for Inslee?

My pal Google says the 2008 primary tally with Gregoire Vs. Rossi was 48.2% vs 46.3% and the election results ended up 53% vs. 47%.

And Inslee is leading 47 to 43 for McKenna?

Is my nightmare scenario of McKenna being Gov not going to come true? Oh happy day, I feel hope dawning within my wee chest.

Someone with more political savvy, please chime in...

It's interesting to see how down in Clark and Cowlitz the Democratic candidates (combined) are beating McKenna.

Lewis County, welfare state that it is, is as usual going for the GOP.

It's time for Burner to win something. I've hoped for her every time and voted for her when I could. Even went to one of her rallies once. I would love to see her in office.

No Washington state U.S. Congressional incumbent is faring more poorly than Dave Reichert, who's barely cracking 50%.

Maybe you guys were let in to McKenna's party because at least one of you was white and to make the place look more crowded..

"Nude erection"

Mature election coverage from The Stranger, as usual.

SECB, what's the over/under on McKenna putting out another "fear my intellectual fury as I make my kids say stupid things on camera for no discernible political gain" campaign ad, based on tonight?

DONK DONK!

THIS IS A BACONCAT NEWS NETWORK BREAKING NEWS BULLETIN!

Pro-equality State Rep. Maureen Walsh (R-16) is coming in with a staggering 66% of the vote over her anti-gay and Pastor Joe Fuiten-endorsed opponent, Mary Ruth Something-or-Other.

This is a major blow to the NOM-promoted "wisdom" that pro-gay Republicans always lose.

We now return you to your liveblog.

How long before we start relegating Darcy Burner to the same category as Stan Lipmann, Goodspaceguy, and Mike the Mover?

The depressing thing is that both Lipmann and Goodspaceguy, absolute loonies, got people to vote for them. Darcy and Mike the Mover are at least sane.

What's the next race Darcy will file for, do you think?

Just going to leave this here: Miloscia and Pidgeon both got ~72,000 votes.

JUST SAYIN'.

I'm surprised you haven't discussed the returns from Pierce County.

The 27th District Senate race was between two Democrats-one, Jack Connelly, is openly homophobic and sexist. His opponent, who has consistently voted for every piece of GLBT Civil Rights legislation and has defended a woman's right to choose throughout her 12-year run as State Representative. Though this primary had only two candidates, who will therefore both automatically progress to the General election regardless of the primary outcome, the bigoted candidate spent over 400,000 dollars of his own money to win it anyway.

Want to see a political contest that will warm your heart? Check out the 27th District, where an ultra-rich trial lawyer who in 2002 signed a petition to repeal Tacoma's Civil Rights ordinances tried to buy votes and lost to a kind-hearted and open minded lady whose entire political career has been marked by compassion and grace.

Think Tacoma's politics are corrupt? Not in the 27th, they're not.

I'm calling Goldy on the following:

I'd say if she [Burner] loses this time around, she probably shouldn't run again.

If you didn't find the booze at the Inslee-Ferguson event, you weren't looking in the right place. There was plenty to be had.

G'bye, Ms. Burner. Come back when you've accomplished something in public life, rather than sucking up contributions and attention as a perennially underperforming vanity candidate. Run for city council, maybe.

We missed y'all at the book thingy. Hope you enjoyed your politics thingy.

BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH

Darcy lost! How could have seen that coming!

Recount! Recount! Recount!

How could Darcy have lost?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

She had the ENTIRE blogosphere supporting her.

She was the keynote speaker at Netroots Nation.

Markos himself campaigned for her. Alan Grayson personally endorsed her.

She couldn't have lost. Not with that kind of support!
No, the election had to have been rigged!!!

Sue! File a suit to stop the certification! We must have an investigation of this obvious theft at the polls!

Run Darcy run! So you lost 2 separate elections tonight. 5th time is the charm.

McKenna and Dunn are toast.

Stick a fork in them both, they're done.

Grats to Noel on the win!

By the way, the Jail, if it loses, can blame the unfunded Billionaires Tunnel for why people said no.

Sucks to be the tax-destroying Ride For The Rich tunnel.

Wow! Socialists chanting OWS slogans.

No, they're not Marxists. Not at all.

ROTFLMAO!!!

Lord Basil, we haven't seen you in ages! How's that rash? Is it still oozing?

I actually read all of the coverage. Which means that I find some of the races interesting (and I do, despite living thousands of miles away ... ::points up::) or that I'm really, really bored.

BTW, I thought "nude erection" was a hoot. Considering how quickly McKenna demolished words in that one ad, this is a quick antidote to his pretentiousness.

they're/their, assholes.

Check out the statement from the Vote Sawant campaign about the breakthrough results from last night:

Kshama Sawant Wins 8.5% of Primary Vote Against Pedersen
Unprecedented Write-In Vote for Position 2 Could Challenge House Speaker Chopp

Kshama Sawant, the Socialist candidate running against Democratic incumbent Jamie Pedersen, has won 8.48% of the ballots in the preliminary count as of 8:15 P.M. on Tuesday, August 7 for the Washington State House in the 43rd District (position 1).

This is a remarkably successful primary election result for a grassroots, anti-corporate campaign running for the first time, given how stacked the election process is against progressive left-wing candidates and parties, and that the corporate media goes out of its way to ignore the left. On top of this is the massive advantage pro-corporate candidates have in terms of resources. The Pedersen campaign has raised over $85,000 from wealthy backers and corporations, while Sawant has raised $10,000 from ordinary people.

The Stranger endorsed Sawant as a write-in for Position 2 in the 43rd district, against Democratic Party incumbent and Speaker of the House Frank Chopp. As of last evening, overall write-ins for Position 2 (10.21%) exceeded the votes obtained by independent candidate Gregory Gadow (9.35%), who is on the primary ballot, but has officially pulled out of the race. It is likely that the vast majority of the write-in votes were for Kshama Sawant.

In the next few days as the write-in votes are fully counted, it is possible that Sawant will be declared the second place finisher against Frank Chopp in position 2, in addition to placing second in position 1. Such a development, unprecedented in recent memory, would represent a shock to the political establishment in Seattle and a rejection of the Democratic Party by the voters in the 43rd District.

It would also mean Sawant would have the right to choose which ballot line to appear on for the general election in November, position 1 (against Pedersen) or position 2 (against Chopp).

“We will wait for the final results of the write-ins for Position 2. But, the extraordinarily high proportion of write-in votes, along with the votes for Gadow, is a clear indication of the anger and discontent with Frank Chopp and his big business politics,” said Philip Locker, the Political Director of the Vote Sawant campaign.

These results show that the political mood is changing. People are outraged about big banks and corporations getting trillions in bailouts and tax breaks, while the rest of us are left with massive cuts to education and social programs, and ever-increasing poverty and unemployment.

The Sawant campaign has pointed out that years of Democratic Party holding the governorship and majorities in both the State House and Senate have resulted in an increasingly regressive tax system, decimation of public education, attacks on unions and state employees, and huge handouts to big corporations.

“Olympia is owned by Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are loyal servants of their corporate masters. Where is the voice to represent ordinary working people?” asked Kshama Sawant.

Sawant's opponent, Democratic incumbent Pedersen is a corporate lawyer. Pedersen has done commendable work for marriage equality, which Sawant supports and has personally marched and organized for. However, Pedersen, like his colleagues in the Democratic Party, is a big-business candidate and has a consistent anti-education, anti-labor voting record. That is why neither he nor Frank Chopp was endorsed by the Washington State Labor Council in a sharp break from tradition.

Sawant, who is running as a Socialist Alternative candidate, is the only candidate calling for the creation of a statewide public works program to create green living-wage jobs, reversing the budget cuts, and providing full funding for education, health care, and public transit by taxing big business and millionaires. She is calling for an end to police brutality in Seattle, and her campaign platform includes the creation of a democratically elected-civilian oversight committee with full powers to hold the police accountable.

"I think the results very resoundingly confirm what our position has been, and what our perspectives have been as socialists and activists—the Occupy Movement, the Arab Spring—I think people are hungry for a change. In the State of Washington, people for decades, have been locked in the stranglehold of big business—both the Democrats and the Republicans represent big business, and not ordinary people. It's time for a change," said Sawant to The Stranger newspaper.

“[We] are really looking forward to running a strong campaign in the general elections. I think that it would be fantastic for us to win, but our campaign—because we are running it as activists, and not as career politicians—we're about the campaign itself, and getting the word out, and we want to get people politically involved," she added. She also called for a series of public debates with Jamie Pedersen this fall.

The campaign is planning to energetically step up their grassroots work of getting the word out and using the election period to help build towards larger social movements to challenge the two parties of the 1% and put the 99% on the political agenda.

Prominent endorsers of Kshama Sawant’s campaign include: The Stranger, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587, Cindy Sheehan (Leading anti-war activist and 2012 Vice Presidential candidate), Rich Lang (pastor at University Temple United Methodist Church and Real Change Columnist*), Mike Lapointe (2012 Independent candidate for U.S. Congress from WA State District 2 and former Vice President of the United Electrical Workers Local 264), Eat the State!, Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity, Radical Women, Freedom Socialist Party. *For identification purposes only

www.VoteSawant.org