ok what the fuck is happening in the washington state gubernatorial race

I'M YOUR NEW GOVERNOR

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Whether Bennett ended up being a Perot or a Nader, I dunno!

I'd posted this in a thread where this came up, but I think the thread was dead by the time I got to it. The Libertarian candidate made a point of her campaign going after Gregoires votes:

Libertarian Bennett, who is drawing about 2 percent of the vote, told The Daily News of Longview she tailored her campaign to draw votes from Gregoire in an attempt to get the major parties to pay more attention to her party's causes.

"That's what I was aiming to do, and that's what it looks like I did," Bennett said. from KATU.com

It's really stupid since her big issue is gay marriage! But don't worry, she intends to use her "power" to make sure Rossi stays away from a marriage amendment. What an idiot.

I'm sorry, but the Libertarian party prove themselves to be whores for the Republicans over and over these days.

About the gay marriage thing... don't we already have some weird possibly unconstitional Defense of Marriage act thing anyway that Locke helped passed many years ago? State court will rule on its constitutionality in March... no one knows which way the ruling will go, but Rossi won't be able to "veto" the ruling right away.. he's going to have to act to do something, which is going to poison his "moderate" stance. Whether he'll care or not, I dunno. (And I doubt Gregroire would have done anything to help make gay marriage in WA happen anyway... in fact, probably the opposite as well. Don't blame me, I voted for Sims in the primary)

Democrat Gregoire ahead by 10 votes -- not counting the 700 or so King County ballots previously disqualified

This also means the state now has to pay for the hand recount, since the results got reversed. Apparently, the Republicans are going to sue to re-reverse this or some shit like that. This is going to be, if you can believe it, even more tedious than before. sigh.

How do you people vote? Pencil and paper, punch card, optical scanning.. or is it different county-by-county? I'm so glad that we still use hand-counted ballots here.

GOP IN "YOU'RE THE CRYING BABY NOW, DOG!" SHOCKAH!

Semi-snide back history of quotes from the Dems and Repubs in question during the election ordeal, which isn't over yet.

98 ballots end up in Alaska

Editorial on the whole ordeal

The more this goes on, the funnier it gets... especially now that the Republicans are the squealers. They've been denying all this time that they'd be whining if the tables were turned, and now that the tables have turned. VOILA! WHINE!

Every time I think the republicans can't be more whiny and hypocritical, they raise the bar.

Call me a cynic but were all the party roles reversed here, the Democrats would look just as ridiculous (and if you read the whole article, in ways they already were).

The Red States, on the other hand, now have to cope with 88% of all
obese Americans (and their projected health care cost spike), 92% of
all US mosquitoes, 90+% of all tornadoes (sorry about that, you'all in
Kansas), 90% of all hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, 100% of
all Televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, and Bob Jones University, Clemson,
and the University of Georgia. A high price to pay for controlling the
presidency.

Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
actually eaten by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're
discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44% believe that evolution
is just a theory, 53% that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, and
61% believe that Bush is a person of moral conviction.

Fuck the Democrats. Oh dear I am back at square one.

After all, it's not the destination but the trip that matters.

Interesting list and order.

The supposed author of the above screed.

somehow i doubt these numbers are scientifically valid.

awww, i thought they wuz gunna appeal this all the way to DC...