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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

First look at Washington primary returns

The first election returns for the night have been posted...here's an overview of how things are shaping up:
  • Supreme Court races look really good. Justices Fairhurst and Johnson are cruising to reelection (Justice Stephens is unopposed).
  • Initiative 26, the Republican-backed scheme to make King County elections nonpartisan, is unfortunately passing as we feared it would.
  • Chris Gregoire and Dino Rossi are running a close contest. Gregoire currently has the edge, 48% to 45%.
  • Brad Owen, Sam Reed, and Brian Sonntag are easily winning big majorities in their races (Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, respectively).
  • Peter Goldmark is closely trailing Doug Sutherland in the race for Lands Commissioner. He's at 48%, Sutherland is at 51%.
  • Randy Dorn is running second behind Terry Bergeson for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Bergeson is at 41% to his 30% with several other candidates splitting the remainder of the vote. If Dorn can pick up the other candidates' supporters he could beat Bergeson in November.
In NPI's home legislative district, the 45th, State Representative Roger Goodman is making a good showing against Republican Toby Nixon, who Roger replaced in the state House two years ago (when Toby ran for state Senate). Toby is running against Roger in the hopes of getting his old seat back.

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