New votes in WA-08, but no clear outcome
The latest reports from King and Pierce Counties put Dave Reichert at 50.9% and Darcy Burner at 49% respectively. The gap between them has widened ever so slightly to 3,120 votes (it was 2,736 yesterday).
New figures are in but this race is still not over - nor is there any clear outcome in sight, as I have said yesterday and the day before. If we were to guess on what might happen it would be that the situation will only get tighter and the numerical difference between the two candidates narrower.
King County will continue reporting new numbers during the next few days (always in the evening - usually before 8 PM) but Pierce County will not report again until the beginning of next week. Pierce County has been kind to Reichert - he currently has 56% of the vote there - but Darcy has put up a better fight than Dave Ross did in 2004, and it's not a big blowout.
Pierce County is disproportionately affecting the results right now - it's overrepresented in the total because it's only roughly around a fifth of the voting total of the district. And most of the votes in Pierce County have been counted.
King County is the other four fifths, and it still has a lot to report. Today King County counted and released very few votes - there's reportedly been power outages which have made it hard to tabulate.
Darcy continues to win in King County, where she has 70,340 votes. Reichert has 69,302. That's a lead of only 1038 votes. If Darcy is to win she will need to increase that lead. Time will tell what happens.
New figures are in but this race is still not over - nor is there any clear outcome in sight, as I have said yesterday and the day before. If we were to guess on what might happen it would be that the situation will only get tighter and the numerical difference between the two candidates narrower.
King County will continue reporting new numbers during the next few days (always in the evening - usually before 8 PM) but Pierce County will not report again until the beginning of next week. Pierce County has been kind to Reichert - he currently has 56% of the vote there - but Darcy has put up a better fight than Dave Ross did in 2004, and it's not a big blowout.
Pierce County is disproportionately affecting the results right now - it's overrepresented in the total because it's only roughly around a fifth of the voting total of the district. And most of the votes in Pierce County have been counted.
King County is the other four fifths, and it still has a lot to report. Today King County counted and released very few votes - there's reportedly been power outages which have made it hard to tabulate.
Darcy continues to win in King County, where she has 70,340 votes. Reichert has 69,302. That's a lead of only 1038 votes. If Darcy is to win she will need to increase that lead. Time will tell what happens.
