Although Democrat Jay Inslee remains behind Republican Rob McKenna in the statewide gubernatorial race, it’s worth noting that the Secretary of State’s office still hasn’t reported votes from King and Clark Counties, which are both likely to skew heavily for Inslee. (Indeed, almost all counties on the west side of the state, including relatively conservative Pierce County, are going for Inslee). Once all those numbers are in, the vote is likely to favor Inslee over McKenna.
UPDATE: At Inslee’s celebration at Democratic Coordinated Campaign headquarters tonight, Inslee’s wife, Trudy Inslee (who was fetching chocolate for the victorious candidate while he banged on a bass drum), told PubliCola she wasn’t surprised by his lopsided primary finish. “Never underestimate Jay,” she said.
We have a call in to McKenna spokesman Randy Pepple.
And in the attorney general’s race, Democrat Bob Ferguson is so far trouncing his Republican King County Council colleague Reagan Dunn, 52.23 to 38.34 (again, without the inclusion of liberal King County). Before the election, Ferguson played the lower-expectations game, based on his poll showing that frequent voters were supporting Dunn by a four-point margin. Now his election chances are looking better than promising.
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