1. Good Luck bringing down Christine Gregoire. Michigan was in a similar position a couple of years ago, with Jennfier Granholm, a democrat who was a media darling despite running a corrupt and incompetent government agency. She won anyway. You might take a "lessons learned" from that campaign.

Posted by: Matt J Kurlander on September 15, 2004 08:37 AM

2. I wonder how much the effect of cross-over voting helped Senn in her narrow victory. I am a Republican and voted for Senn because I believe she is the least electable candidate for the Democrats. Is there any way to do an unofficial bloggers poll on this website?

Posted by: Tim Ford on September 15, 2004 08:40 AM

3. Having spent 10 years in politics (2 county commish campaigns, some high school ASB races, TWO Canadian provincial dogfights and a community college trustee bid) - I am a bit worried, but unsurprised at the crossover. Seems a lot of Republicans, figuring out they didn't have a real primary, went over and voted Democrat. Also helps when the Dems have hot races in the legislature.

In the good old days, the primary was a reliable predictor of the general election. Now, I would discount it. And I'm a conservative Democrat who voted on the Dem primary for Sims (to get that ogre out - enuf said, I'll vote Rossi in FORTY-EIGHT DAYS AND THE WORLD WILL BE RIGHT SIDE UP AGAIN), I wrote in my name for U.S. Senate (I'll probably vote Libertarian), voted (reluctantly...) for Sidran because Senn is a N-U-T from all sources, and I proudly voted for "the angry mother" Doyon.

Speaking of the Superintendent race, can't believe this - NO conservatives, like I dunno Lynn Harsh or Marsha Richards of EFF, to run. If conservatives want to really shake things up in education, then they've gotta make a run at the Superintendent of Public Education. Get Lynn Harsh to run, that'll scare the WEA like never before. Or Marsha Richards, that'll shake & stir the WEA. Conservatives cannot sit back and whine - you gotta make something happen. If you want to make a difference, then you must report for duty and run for office - apply to be community college trustee as I have, run for school board, campaign hard against I-884 and check out www.freedomvoter.org, etcetera. Otherwise, the spendthrift, unaccountable education establishment gets an undeserved free pass as they're going to get now.

Enough ranting and raving. FORTY EIGHT MORE DAYS OF THIS GAR-BAGE IN THE GOV'S OFFICE... then we start finding a credible candidate for Superintendent of Public Education.

Josef

Posted by: Josef on September 15, 2004 09:21 AM

4. I might possibly have crossed to vote for Helen Sommers, Ron Sims, and Che Guavera (for McDermott's spot).

Posted by: Al on September 15, 2004 10:16 AM

5. I voted Democrat to give a boost to both Sims and Senn.

It's hard to say how many such crossover votes there were and how much that actually helped Senn. I would assume that a lot of the crossovers for Senn would also have gone for Sims. And look how poorly he did.

Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on September 15, 2004 10:59 AM

6. Please, no more gagging over the Billings v. Bergeson choice! I mean, obviously it's a less than ideal situation. But at this point, it's not even a lesser of two evils thing. It's more of a Deepest Evil Spawned From the Depths of the WEA vs. a potentially helpful moderate liberal.

Bergeson supports testing and charter schools, and the WEA wants her dead. Those are three reasons to, if not sign on enthusiastically, then at least stifle the gagging.

Posted by: Timothy on September 15, 2004 01:42 PM

7. Check out Rob McKenna's new website! http://www.robmckenna.org/

It's about time he put together a professional-looking site.

I'll closely follow his race with Senn; it's hard to believe that she's electable, but when's the last time a mainstream conservative like McKenna got any statewide traction in this state? Anyone? Anyone?

Posted by: Larry on September 16, 2004 02:23 PM

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