Is a compromise on extending the tax cuts enacted under Pres. Bush in the offing? After a weekend of politicking, it seems that Democrats are willing to deal and Republicans are in the driver seat. Buzz has been overheard that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) may be pulling strings for a procedural vote early during this coming week, perhaps on a compromise amendment yet | Read More »
Dino Rossi has conceded the Washington U.S. Senate race to opponent and incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D). Although Rossi continued to pick up votes from many counties from today’s results, those gains were obliterated by a net gain for Murray of more than 25,000 votes in the Democratic stronghold of King County. Those votes also broke harder for Murray than in previous days’ counts, a | Read More »
King County will continue to be ground zero in the U.S. Senate race between Dino Rossi (R) and Sen. Patty Murray (D), with the count of all ballots possibly not being completed until Friday or next week. After counts from around the state have all been posted mid-evening, the Rossi camp trails in the statewide count by 27,464 votes with hundreds of thousands of votes | Read More »
Two key races in Washington State appear headed to razor-thin finishes, but official results may not be certified until as far off as next week because of the nearly universal mail-in voting in the Evergreen State. As of the latest reported count, Republican Dino Rossi currently trails incumbent Democratic Sen. Patty Murray by nearly 14,000 votes. Although the margin gives Murray a 0.98 percent edge | Read More »
Most often, it’s the patronizing tone of the emails emanating from both of the national party machines that cause me to hit the delete button as soon as they land in my inbox. For some reason, I took a moment to read one that came tonight from First Lady Michelle Obama and got a chuckle not from its predictably uninspired copywriting, but from what Mrs. | Read More »
It’s the Friday before Election Day 2010 and polling updates in the Washington U.S. Senate race between incumbent Democrat Patty Murray and Republican challenger Dino Rossi continue to stream in. The KING-TV/SurveyUSA poll released Friday morning has the race absolutely deadlocked, 47 percent breaking equally to Murray and Rossi, with six percent of respondents undecided. SurveyUSA polled 678 likely and actual voters between Oct. 24th | Read More »
The newest Fox News poll of the U.S. Senate race in Washington State finds Republican challenger Dino Rossi leading incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D) by one point, 47-46. The weekly tracking poll – taken October 9th by Pulse Opinion from 1,000 likely voters and having a margin of error of three points – offers more reasons to believe that momentum is shifting to Rossi as | Read More »
New poll shows Rossi leading Murray by 6 in Washington Senate race Despite the opinion of a left-leaning newspaper on the other side of the continent that Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has a 74 percent chance of being re-elected, slightly more scientific numbers continue to favor Republican challenger Dino Rossi. A new poll reported by The Washington Post this morning gives Rossi a six point | Read More »
This morning, while incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) was still having an extended case of the Mondays trying to spin her support for a “jobs bill” that could wind up harming major Northwest employer Microsoft, Republican challenger in the race for Washington’s U.S. Senate seat was getting a little help from former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani. After meeting with Rossi supporters in the campaign’s | Read More »
WorkSource employee felt that veterans blew her political email “way out of proportion” Eighteen pages of emails obtained from the Washington Employment Security Department contain communication suggesting that Sen. Patty Murray’s re-election campaign met with a state worker with the purpose of asking for campaign work to be done using state resources. On August 12th of this year, WorkSource employee Sally Garcia sent an email | Read More »
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