Rossi should concede
The election is over. All that's left is a protracted legal fight from Republicans who are sore losers and can't accept the result of a fair election.
The Tacoma News Tribune writes this morning:
There are some people who are inventing fantasies to pretend the Republicans are like a military force who will take the election back and install Rossi as the governor. These people obviously lack common sense and intelligence; they are replacing reality with their own delusions.
It's much easier to allege fraud than it is to prove it. And it's easy for the Republicans to switch positions on recanvassing. It's oh-so-convenient for them to take up the mantra of "Count every vote" after the Supreme Court ruled against them. They apparently forgot that the Court already ruled against the Democrats before, saying it would not force counties to recanvass the election.
Indeed, the Secretary of State prevailed instead, and the existing election standards were upheld. But now it's Republicans who want to overturn these standards. Because doing so would now benefit them.
The election is over. We have a winner and a loser. The winner, Governor Gregoire, should prepare to take office. The loser, Dino Rossi, should gracefully concede.
The Tacoma News Tribune writes this morning:
Barring evidence of actual vote-tampering – and no such evidence has surfaced – Rossi should start writing his concession speech. We would have urged the same for Gregoire had their positions been reversed. It is simply the right thing to do, for the voters and for the state.There are Rossi supporters who hate Christine Gregoire so much that they blindly treat her as a devil. These are the people who demonize King County and endlessly compare it to Ukraine.
Rossi, a relative newcomer to state politics, astonished just about everyone in this election by battling his far more experienced and better-known opponent to a statistical draw. He ended the original count 261 votes ahead, the first recount 42 votes up.
Given the fallibility of election workers and the number of ballots cast in this race, it is not surprising to see swings of several hundred votes from one count to the next. It was particularly disturbing to see how many ballots were wrongly disqualified or misplaced in King County. Still, the Supreme Court ruled rightly – all politics aside – that Washingtonians who properly cast their ballots should not be disenfranchised by the sloppiness of their county elections department.
There are some people who are inventing fantasies to pretend the Republicans are like a military force who will take the election back and install Rossi as the governor. These people obviously lack common sense and intelligence; they are replacing reality with their own delusions.
It's much easier to allege fraud than it is to prove it. And it's easy for the Republicans to switch positions on recanvassing. It's oh-so-convenient for them to take up the mantra of "Count every vote" after the Supreme Court ruled against them. They apparently forgot that the Court already ruled against the Democrats before, saying it would not force counties to recanvass the election.
Indeed, the Secretary of State prevailed instead, and the existing election standards were upheld. But now it's Republicans who want to overturn these standards. Because doing so would now benefit them.
The election is over. We have a winner and a loser. The winner, Governor Gregoire, should prepare to take office. The loser, Dino Rossi, should gracefully concede.
