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And in the first results, all THREE incumbents, including the allegedly hated Sawant, are leading after the first batch of returns. So much for the certainty of a the Trumpist takeover tensor has been salivating about.

113

At this point, it's Sawant with 33%-her vote share always increases as each day's batch of votes come in-Orion, the Chamber of Commerce/corporate power candidate, is at 24% DeWolf is in a weak third-place position with 14%-there's no way in hell his votes go to Orion as a block in November-Murakami is at 13%, at most 16% combined for the libertarian pot guy and whatever the name of the other candidate in the race.

114

Yes, Sawant's vote is down, as usually happens when in ai...mostly she lost to DeWolf, who clearly won't be in the general election ballot and whose supporters are not going to go as a bloc to Orion. Murakami voters might, but that still only gets him to about 36%. The votes of the libertarian pot guy are more of a wildcard.

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@112: If “the incumbents may survive the primary!!” Is your good news, I’d love to see what your bad news looks like.

That said, I would expect early votes to be most anti-incumbent and anti-tax, so it’s good news for both tonight’s leaders and the tax issues (Library for Seattle, Parks for King County) to be leading on election night.

“So much for the certainty of a the Trumpist takeover tensor has been salivating about.”

Dude, just call me a Nazi. You know you’re aching to do it, and It would be deeply embarrassing for you if GermanSausage beat you to it.

@113: “...DeWolf is in a weak third-place position with 14%-there's no way in hell his votes go to Orion as a block in November-”

Because whiskey monkey banana telephone I SAID SO THAT’S WHY no backsies!!!1!

@114: “...mostly she lost to DeWolf,”

You might get a fight from @113 about that. See his quote, above.

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115: I hadn't yet thought of you as a Nazi, but clearly your obsession with sweeping homeless encampments-an approach which never produces humane outcomes-does mark you as somewhere on the authoritarian right. Punitive approaches to social issues never result in anything progressive or compassionate happening. I said Sawant lost most vote share from last time to De Wolf. The votes going to Orion are almost all votes that went to Sawant's corporate-centrist opponent-there is no way any significant number of votes would swing from a socialist candidate last time to the most conservative candidate in the race-Orion-this time. There's no argument Orion could possibly make to DeWolf supporters to add them to his total-DeWolf supporters aren't THAT obsessed with defeating Kshama.

117

Here's how it looks for the fall, if you work in the votes for the District 3 candidates who are out of the running: The only defeated candidate's votes which are likely to go to Orion(who starts with 24% on his own) are the 14% which have gone to Murakami, which would take him to 38%. On the other side, the 13% which went to DeWolf will likely go to Sawant in the fall-they voted DeWolf on political style grounds, not substantive disagreement on the issues-getting her to 45%-46% right there. The 7.5% which went to Nguyen voted for a progressive agenda, dominated by criminal justice reform. No way in hell does Orion, whom we can simply assume is the "law and order" candidate, being the Chamber of Commerce-GOP candidate, win any significant number of Nguyen's votes. That means that, even if Orion sweeps Murakami and the pot shop owner's votes, he's at maybe 45%. And it means you were being amazingly silly to think the District 3 contest was ever going to be between Orion and the pot guy.


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