From Rasmussen:
Dino Rossi has pulled ahead of Governor Christine Gregoire for the first time since February in Washington’s gubernatorial election. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds Rossi leading the incumbent 52% to 46%.
The latest numbers represent the first time Rossi has received over 50% from voters in Washington. Last month, Gregoire led the race by four points and she has now lost ground in four straight monthly polls. This year’s election is reminiscent of the exciting match up between the two candidates in 2004 that ended with a controversial win for Gregoire that had to be decided by the state’s courts.
It wasn’t really decided in 2004 by courts – it was decided by Democratic judges allowing Democrats in Democratic strongholds to keep recounting the ballots until they came out with the correct, for Democrats, result. What happened in Washington State in 2004 was precisely what the Democrats wanted to happen in Florida in 2000 – keep counting until the Democrat wins. The difference was that the Florida result was Federal, and thus the US Supreme Court was able to step in and prevent Democrats from stealing Florida. Washington was a purely State affair, and so Democratic judges – who, like almost all senior Democrats, put party before everything – were given free reign.
In what started as an anti-GOP year – but is no longer – I had only small hopes that we would be able to correct the 2004 injustice by defeating the Thief in Chief of Washington; she’s never been a popular governor, but a general anti-GOP feeling in a fairly Democratic State looked to give her the “oomph” needed to seal her larceny. Not any more – still a hard fight, but we now have a chance of really sticking it to Democratic voter fraud in Washington and around the country.
Now, for those of you in Washington – get out there and fight for Dino Rossi.
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