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Friday, November 17, 2006

Simple answers, 8th District version

Time to do our local rip-off version of "Simple Answers to Simple Questions" again, as always with apologies to Atrios.

Q: Why did Darcy Burner lose?

A: Because it was a really close race that could have gone either way.

Thanks for playing.

If you need a slightly more complicated version, it's this: in a close race, everything matters. So it may be a fun game for reporters to ask candidates to speculate, but in the end it's not very useful other than as an opportunity for reporters to play "gotcha." And then reporters complain when candidates like Maria Cantwell tend not to return calls. Gee, wonder why?

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