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• Angles on R-71

  As of this afternoon, the vote on Washington Referendum 71 – whether to sustain the state law providing “everything but marriage” for same-sex domestic partnerships – continues close but has been holding steady, at 51% yes, 49% no. The potential for a flip remains, but the odds are growing that [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:19pm EST
  by Randy Stapilus

• ID: The partisan/non-partisan thing

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  There might be some useful lessons drawn (for both parties, really) from the first paragraph of this post today from Spokane Spokesman-Review reporter Betsy Russell: After the Idaho Republican Party took the unusual step of passing a central committee resolution backing party involvement in non-partisan city races, one county’s GOP central [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  by Randy Stapilus

• ID: A Pocatello shocker, non-surprises elsewhere

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  So far as we can see, there’s one big shocker in Idaho elections today: Two-term Pocatello Mayor Roger Chase ousted by newcomer Brian Blad. The margin was around 53%-47% – not large, but enough to decide. That we didn’t see coming. On a recent visit to Pocatello, the word from [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:05pm EST
  by Randy Stapilus

• WA: Tales of two issues

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  We’ll make that recurring pitch again: Washington, do what Oregon does and require that ballots be at the courthouse on election day, not merely postmarked. You’d save a lot of blood pressure that way, among other things. Indications so far are that Washington voters (1) decisively are rejecting the severe tax [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:39pm EST
  by Randy Stapilus

• WA: As alliances become clearer . . .

  For a while, conservative-under-wraps Susan Hutchison seemed to be pulling off enough of a play-to-the-middle campaign to hang on to enough votes to win as King County executive. But in liberal King County, it was always a tall order, and in the end the task was too much, and the [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:51pm EST
  by Randy Stapilus