Tim Eyman’s I‑1366 ahead in early returns

Looks like we’re going to have to go back to court to fin­ish off Tim Eyman’s I‑1366.

In ear­ly returns, Eyman’s awful hostage-tak­ing mea­sure was ahead in most of the state’s impor­tant swing coun­ties (like Spokane, Sno­homish, Pierce, and Clark) as well as its small­er, more rur­al ones. It is los­ing in King, San Juan, Thurston, and Jef­fer­son, which is some com­fort, but it may not have enough oppo­si­tion to fail. Depend­ing how the late vot­ers break, we could see the mar­gin tighten.

This is a very dis­ap­point­ing result, but we’re not dis­cour­aged. We have always been in this fight for the long haul. We are not going anywhere.

Con­sid­er­ing how mod­est the NO on I‑1366 cam­paign was (less than $150,000 was raised and spent to oppose the mea­sure) the result is not ter­ri­bly surprising.

Eyman is clear­ly get­ting some mileage out of the very favor­able bal­lot title that the Attor­ney Gen­er­al gave him at the begin­ning of the year.

With King Coun­ty final­ly in the statewide pic­ture, the ear­ly returns are as follows:

Yes on I‑1366: 53.66% (458,866)
No on I‑1366: 46.34% (396,304)

I’ll update this post as fur­ther returns come in.