Aaron Ostrom from FUSE writes:

What happened?

The "Johnson Syndrome":

Voters don't have any information about a race but see a name that seems familiar and go for it.

(1) In 1990 Washington voters elected Charles Johnson—an unknown lawyer from Gig Harbor with no judicial experience who did not campaign—to the State Supreme Court. He defeated Chief Justice Keith Callow, a widely respected judge with no political liabilities other than a name that rhymed with gallow.

Does that really explain supreme court candidate Stan Rumbaugh's whupping at the polls? Get into the discussion here.