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• Hutchison concedes King Co. exec's race

  Susan Hutchison has conceded the King County executive's race to Dow Constantine. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:58pm EST
  

• McGinn still leads Mallahan, barely

  Mike McGinn maintained his lead against Joe Mallahan in the Seattle mayor's race after Wednesday's vote count. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:30pm EST
  

• Gay rights measure extends lead

  Referendum 71, which would uphold the state's new "everything but marriage" law for gay domestic partners, edged closer to passage after the latest vote count Wednesday [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:29pm EST
  

• GOP's King Co. problem: Abe Lincoln couldn't win in Seattle

  In a post-Election Day conference call with reporters, state Republican Chairman Luke Esser summed up his party's problems in the county where nearly one in three Washingtonians live. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:06pm EST
  

• Biden luncheon postponed

  Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., has put off luncheon featuring Vice President Joe Biden out of respect for the memorial service for slain Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:03pm EST
  

• R-71 will squeak through, says Washington Poll

  The statewide Washington Poll, which low balled opposition to Referendum 71, predicts voters will approve same-sex partners' rights by a margin of just 81,529.' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:37pm EST
  

• TechFlash: Did T-Mobile outage hurt Mallahan?

  TechFlash reporter John Cook admits it's a far-fetched theory, but when every vote counts, he wrote, it's worth asking whether Tuesday's T-Mobile outages could have hurt Seattle mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan, a former vice president at the company. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:18am EST
  

• McGinn campaign tries to get out the really late vote

  Even after the first returns came in Tuesday night, campaign staffers at mayoral candidate Mike McGinn's party at the War Room on Capitol hill were still trying to get out the vote. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:01pm EST
  

• Maine voters reject gay marriage law

  Voters in Maine Tuesday night rejected the state's new gay marriage law. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

• King Co. voters like knowing who's a 'D' and who's an 'R'

  King County voters decided a year ago to make county elective offices nonpartisan, but they nonetheless want to know the party affiliations of the nonpartisan candidates they elect. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:22pm EST
  

• Democrat wins upstate New York congressional race

  For the first time since the Civil War era, New York's 23rd Congressional District has a Democratic representative, CNN projects. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:20pm EST
  

• R-71: 'We are hopeful, but not stupid'

  Thirty-six-year-old Mary Klein was pretty accurate when she described the mood at the campaign's Capitol Hill party as "tentatively optimistic." [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:10pm EST