Washington 2020: The Calm Before the Drizzle

[LastVoter]

SUSA results, with good news for Dems, and great news for pot and gay marriage:

Governor
Inslee 49%
McKenna 44%

U.S. Senate
Cantwell 54%
Baumgartner 38%

Referendum 74 (Right to marriage for gay and lesbian couples)
Approved 56%
Rejected 38%

Charter schools
Yes 52%
No 26%

Two-thirds tax increase
Yes 58%
No 21%

Marijuana legalization
Yes 57%
No 34%

Attorney General
Ferguson 42%
Dunn 33%

WA tends to be a great state ...

Did you not notice the charter schools?

[LastVoter]

Marijuana legalization
Yes 57%
No 34%

looks like we'll get the federal invasion

A full-scale invasion or just a few National Guardsmen pacing the streets of Seattle and breaking windows and killing dogs?

[CultureKing]

SUSA results, with good news for Dems, and great news for pot and gay marriage:

Governor
Inslee 49%
McKenna 44%

U.S. Senate
Cantwell 54%
Baumgartner 38%

Referendum 74 (Right to marriage for gay and lesbian couples)
Approved 56%
Rejected 38%

Charter schools
Yes 52%
No 26%

Two-thirds tax increase
Yes 58%
No 21%

Marijuana legalization
Yes 57%
No 34%

Attorney General
Ferguson 42%
Dunn 33%

WA tends to be a great state ...

Did you not notice the charter schools?

Or Tim Eyeman's 2/3 tax increase initiative?

[LastVoter]

SUSA results, with good news for Dems, and great news for pot and gay marriage:

Governor
Inslee 49%
McKenna 44%

U.S. Senate
Cantwell 54%
Baumgartner 38%

Referendum 74 (Right to marriage for gay and lesbian couples)
Approved 56%
Rejected 38%

Charter schools
Yes 52%
No 26%

Two-thirds tax increase
Yes 58%
No 21%

Marijuana legalization
Yes 57%
No 34%

Attorney General
Ferguson 42%
Dunn 33%

WA tends to be a great state ...

Did you not notice the charter schools?

Or Tim Eyeman's 2/3 tax increase initiative?

Oh I thought that was the income tax which would have required two-thirds support.

[CultureKing]

Washington doesn't have an income tax. Eyeman's initiative is a repeat of his past efforts to require the Washington legislature to have a 2/3 majority to increase any taxes. Basically it constricts their ability to do anything.

[LastVoter]

Washington doesn't have an income tax. Eyeman's initiative is a repeat of his past efforts to require the Washington legislature to have a 2/3 majority to increase any taxes. Basically it constricts their ability to do anything.

So that poll didn't include the income tax initiative?

[RI]

Washington doesn't have an income tax. Eyeman's initiative is a repeat of his past efforts to require the Washington legislature to have a 2/3 majority to increase any taxes. Basically it constricts their ability to do anything.

So that poll didn't include the income tax initiative?

There isn't one.

[Meeker]

The Eyman initiative was declared unconstitutional a few months ago. Passage is kind of irrelevant.

[Ogre Mage]

Reagan Dunn is done and Baumgartner's massive defeat is a given.  If McKenna also loses and R-74 is approved, the WA GOP would receive an a$$ whipping of historic proportions.  I'm not too concerned about the Eyman initiative for the reason stated by Meeker.

[CultureKing]

The Eyman initiative was declared unconstitutional a few months ago. Passage is kind of irrelevant.

Thank God/FSM

[bgwah]

Can someone enter the polls for Governor and Senator into the database?

[Meeker]

There's a new poll PPP did for the Washington Conservation Voters that has Inslee ahead 48-42.

[Alcon]

There's a new poll PPP did for the Washington Conservation Voters that has Inslee ahead 48-42.

I don't suppose you have access to any more for that poll that won't get you/us shot?

[Meeker]

There's a new poll PPP did for the Washington Conservation Voters that has Inslee ahead 48-42.

I don't suppose you have access to any more for that poll that won't get you/us shot?

I wish I was that cool: http://wcvoters.org/files/jay-inslee-sept.-2012-poll-results

Note that McKenna's name recognition is still 6 points higher than Inslee's.

[Alcon]

Obama 53%
Romney 42%

Inslee 48%
McKenna 42%

Sample was Obama +19 in 2008

No other questions

[Meeker]

Inslee is doing better amongst Republicans than McKenna is amongst Democrats.

[Jackson]

Why should that be surprising?

[Meeker]

Why should that be surprising?

It was the opposite in their June poll.

Rob McKenna won by the margin he did in 2008 - and to a lesser extent 2004 - because of crossover appeal from Democrats. That was supposed to give him a path to victory in this race. That crossover appeal has vanished.

[greenforest32]

Is it the crossover appeal vanishing or the undecideds breaking towards Inslee? A lot of the earlier polls had undecideds at 15-20% and now they're reaching low double/high single digits.

[bgwah]

SUSA results, with good news for Dems, and great news for pot and gay marriage:

Governor
Inslee 49%
McKenna 44%

U.S. Senate
Cantwell 54%
Baumgartner 38%

Referendum 74 (Right to marriage for gay and lesbian couples)
Approved 56%
Rejected 38%

Charter schools
Yes 52%
No 26%

Two-thirds tax increase
Yes 58%
No 21%

Marijuana legalization
Yes 57%
No 34%

Attorney General
Ferguson 42%
Dunn 33%

Can someone add these numbers to the database?

[CultureKing]

Whelp today I officially moved to the Bay Area... It is with sadness that I renounce my Washington citizenship (although I am waiting until after the election to officially register in Cali). I will be wishing you well in the greatest state of the US. God bless Cascadia!!

-CultureKing

[bgwah]

Whelp today I officially moved to the Bay Area... It is with sadness that I renounce my Washington citizenship (although I am waiting until after the election to officially register in Cali). I will be wishing you well in the greatest state of the US. God bless Cascadia!!

-CultureKing

Did you decide grad school was the solution to your quarter-life crisis?

Or did you actually get a job down there?

[CultureKing]

Whelp today I officially moved to the Bay Area... It is with sadness that I renounce my Washington citizenship (although I am waiting until after the election to officially register in Cali). I will be wishing you well in the greatest state of the US. God bless Cascadia!!

-CultureKing

Did you decide grad school was the solution to your quarter-life crisis?

Or did you actually get a job down there?

Somehow I managed to blunder my way into my dream job. Quite honestly its one of those situations where I am terrified that some horrible (wonderful) mistake has been made. Although it should be noted that I am working for a non-profit, which means that I won't be getting rich anytime soon.

[bgwah]

Whelp today I officially moved to the Bay Area... It is with sadness that I renounce my Washington citizenship (although I am waiting until after the election to officially register in Cali). I will be wishing you well in the greatest state of the US. God bless Cascadia!!

-CultureKing

Did you decide grad school was the solution to your quarter-life crisis?

Or did you actually get a job down there?

Somehow I managed to blunder my way into my dream job. Quite honestly its one of those situations where I am terrified that some horrible (wonderful) mistake has been made. Although it should be noted that I am working for a non-profit, which means that I won't be getting rich anytime soon.

Are those all the details we get?

[CultureKing]

Fine, I'll give you a bit more.
I'll be working in the Fair Trade arena. I completed an Americorps position in July and then realized just how hard it is to find a permanent job as a recent college graduate. Luckily the job in the Bay Area required a bizarrely specific set of qualifications, which I met but only just barely. Luckily with non-profits if you are often given the benefit of the doubt if you can demonstrate a drive/commitment to the movement (and since I lived/breathed social justice while in Central America I definitely did well in that category). Anyways I am just happy to have an awesome opportunity ahead of me!

....also Berkeley is a darn cool place.

also also I worked a job in Seattle for one day and then immediately quit upon receiving the offer from the Bay Area = awkward.