The election is over for most of the country, though, of course, we still have about a third of the ballots cast in Washington State still to count. While 48 others states have counted at least 96% of their ballots according to Real Clear Politics, only Utah (at 78% counted) is lagging anywhere near WA in still trying to get its election-day work done.
That’s not so stay that we can’t start reading some tea leaves from our state’s election results. So, Shift will provide a few perspectives for your consideration over the next few days, starting with these:
- It was essentially a status quo election, and a good night to be an incumbent (isn’t it almost always), especially a Democrat incumbent. All 10 federal incumbents won with 57% or more – seven of them Democrats. All four incumbent statewide office holders (along with three sitting liberal Supreme Court Justices) won, and Democrats won the three partisan open-seat statewides they previously held. Every Democrat state legislator running for re-election won, none with less than 53%, though one Republican Senator lost and three GOP House members are behind.
- Jay Inslee has proven again that he is the governor for all…of King County.For the second straight election, Jay Inslee lost the election in the 38 counties outside of King. However, according to the first-night numbers, Jay won King County by 258,853, offsetting Bill Bryant’s advantage in the other 38 counties, which the GOP challenger won by 2,052. Evidently it isn’t enough that Jay use to drive (what a union guy who has actually done it would call “operating”) a bulldozer when it comes to finding votes outside the state’s largest county.
- Seattle is revolting!A paraphrase from the title of an old Wizard of Id cartoon seems to perfectly capture the fact that whiny Seattle types are not ready to accept the election results just yet. From the liberal Seattle blog Crosscut, the verdict is “here’s where progressive Northwest readers will look for a ray of hope. What I can offer is that our country is very screwed up, but we’re resilient. We’ve overcome huge crises: We ended slavery, we fought back after Pearl Harbor, we dug our way out of the Great Depression. We haven’t elected a fascist before, but we’ve beaten them abroad, and we can do it at home.”
Or, from the even more liberal blog PubliCola, “they now control the White House, the House, and the Senate. That’s the lesson of last night. Understanding bigotry and resentment isn’t the answer. Leading on policy is. And liberals at the state, regional, and local level here in Washington set an example on that score last night. At the national level, that’s what Democrats should be listening to.”
And, finally, from the folks at the King County Labor Council, who are already heading to the barricades: “Brothers and Sisters, Although the results from the Presidential Election were shocking…We must fight for each other and oppose the type of divisiveness that President-Elect Trump has spread across our nation…Today, several organizations are banding together to show that despite national election results, we will work together, that we can do better, that Seattle and Washington state will help lead the way. Please join us today for post-election rallies.”
More lessons to come, in the days ahead…
“It was essentially a status quo election…”
So, does this mean a local “…online platform for shifting the debate in Olympia” will admit complete and total failure to accomplish that goal?
So does this mean King County liberals voted to continue the generation-long failure, blame and taking credit for others accomplishments?
Give examples or no credit.
Did you ever decide if you had indeed given money to Shift? If you had, what do you think of Shift’s performance? (Specifically, Shift’s total failure at accompllishing any part of Shift’s self-proclaimed core mission.)
It is amazing you, through your taxes, are taking credit for Amazon’s growth. I think that credit should go to the Wall Street Capitalists that you Liberals hate who funded the company through its startup and many years of losses along with the local Capitalists (who I am sure are not liberals) that have built the buildings that they are now occupying.
There are many reasons for Amazon’s rise, of course. The back-story here was Biff’s repeated demand I give an example of a Seattle policy which helped local business to succeed. (Amazon’s deal with the city in the late ’90s was so favorable to the growing company that Washington State’s Auditor investigated the deal, finding no wrongdoing.)
along with the local Capitalists (who I am sure are not liberals)…
Then I am sure you’ll have no problem giving examples of Seattle’s local illiberal Capitalists who have invested in the new Amazon HQ.
Liberals building skyscrapers that is amusing!
And yet, no examples.
That is amusing!
Funny, how King County (which was, rightfully, named after a notable white man) affects elections in this state. I watched a solid lead for a Republican candidate do a complete 180 when King County votes came in. How, exactly, is that fair?
People on the wet side have virtually no idea of the issues that we East siders deal with, nor do they care, as is obvious by the way they continue to vote.
For the second straight election, Jay Inslee lost the election in the 38 counties outside of King.
Wrong.
You’ve been hating the guy for years, and you still can’t get even the most basic of facts right.
Maybe those two things are related?
Please explain your comment for those of us less fortunate…….
The link (which may be hard to see; it’s a lighter shade of grey) should lead to a map of the results from our 2012 Governor’s election. It shows Jay Inslee winning more than one county then, just as he’s winning more than one county now.
Shift just couldn’t let these mere facts get in the way of a petulant whine about how Jay Inslee ins’t “really” Governor of Washington Statw.
King Count imposes its moronic will on the rest of Washington. If there were a giant tsunami wave across the Sound, would it wash all the liberals out of Washington State? I think so. Everybody else in Washington has some common sense.
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