Time to declare Murray the winner

[Bumblebee]

Sen. Patty Murray picked up a net gain of more than 25,000 votes from King County Thursday afternoon, almost doubling her statewide lead over Republican Dino Rossi.

At this point, it looks unlikely that Rossi can win.

The incumbent now leads Rossi by more than 52,000 votes out of 1.7 million cast. After Wednesday's tally, Murray led Rossi by 27,436 votes out of about 1.62 million counted statewide. After Tuesday's first count, that lead had been 14,005 votes out of 1,430,787.

Murray was besting Rossi 309,877 votes to 178,725 in King County. Every day, the margins for Murray in the state's largest county have improved. She's now taking more than 63 percent of the vote in King; on Election Night that number just over 62 percent.

In King County, Murray's advantage over Rossi is now 131,152 votes. As of Wednesday, it was 105,639 - a pickup of 25,513. After Tuesday's first check. As of Wednesday afternoon, it was 105,639 - a pickup of 16,888 votes.

Election officials had figured that about 2.4 million total votes would be cast in Washington, but that was an estimate. Best on pre-election estimates, there are likely more than 200,000 ballots left to be counted in King County.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/227255.asp

See also:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2013349339_murrays_lead_widens_on_new_vot.html

[gateley]

1. We're smart here in King County! nt

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

2. Rossi will be an asshole about this and drag it out as long as he can.

He previously held the record from his 2004 attempt to steal the Washington Governor's mansion, and was furious when Norm Coleman beat his record of "worst petty asshole in the Republican party".

Dino wants the title back. He's not giving up any time soon.

[Bumblebee]

3. It won't be close enough for that. By the end she will be up by 4-5 points.

No way he can argue with that much difference.