openleft.com - 10/23/2008
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I just saw that King 5 TV reported a new Survey USA poll, Darcy is up 50-46 over Reichert. The ad which pointed out that he's ineffective really knocked him down, the first time his reputation has been damaged in any serious way. Reichert's even set up a site, ...
openleft.com - 10/23/2008
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openleft.com —
Emily Heffter at the Seattle Times just published
a story Darcy Burner's claims of a Harvard degree...
in economics aren't true . The story is literally made up out of whole cloth. Burner has a degree in computer science and economics from ...
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How the Seattle Times Is Trying to Take Out Darcy Burner
dailykos.com - 10/23/2008
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dailykos.com —
Freaked out at the possibility of Darcy Burner
winning her seat, a whole host of unsavory characters...
have suddenly piled on: Third party groups are dumping hundreds of thousands into the district. Reichert's media buyer has given the candidate ...
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WA-08: The anti-Darcy barrage
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SurveyUSA: Darcy up 50-46!
HorsesAss.Org —
So I guess all those folks who pooh-poohed last week’s polls as partisan propaganda are eating a little crow now.
Meanwhile, I’ll have more on this later, but Matt Stoller pretty much puts knife through the scandal that isn’t.
WA-08: Burner Up By 4 in SUSA; SSP Upgrades to "Tossup"
Swing State Project —
Survey USA (10/20-21, likely voters, 9/7-9 in parens):
Darcy Burner (D): 50 (44)
Dave Reichert (R-inc): 46 (54)
(MoE: ?4%)
This race has spent most of this cycle at the top of the races-to-watch list for the blogosphere, after Darcy Burner captivated the netroots in 2006 en route to losing to one-term incumbent Dave Reichert in this D+2 district by a few points, and then continued running for 2008 without missing a beat. However, a lot of blogospherians (including us at SSP) started worrying a bit in the immediate wake of the financial crisis, when other ...
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Darcy Burner concedes
horsesass.org 11/8/2008 — Darcy issued the following brief statement:
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Darcy Burner fights the Republican smear machine
crooksandliars.com 10/28/2008 — Darcy burner is fighting back against Dave Reichert's last-minute smear campaign accusing Darcy of fluffing her academic record -- even though Reichert is guilty of exactly that himself. The video above is a powerful response to Reichert's own smear ...
WA-08: Burner and Reichert Tie
swingstateproject.com 10/26/2008 — Research 2000 for Daily Kos (10/21-23, likely voters, 10/5-7 in parens):
Darcy Burner (D) : 46 (41)
Dave Reichert (R-inc) : 46 (49)
(MoE: ?5%)
Here's a nice turnaround from the last Research 2000 poll of the race in WA-08, which showed Burner ...
Burner Outpaces Reichert on Local Donations
horsesass.org 10/17/2008 — US Rep. Dave Reichert’s spin on Democratic challenger Darcy Burner is that her campaign fund is bolstered by out-of-staters—those carpetbagging netroots folks.
And the Seattle Times ran with that angle earlier this month:
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Darcy Burner’s Degree
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/23/2008 — My thoughts on this absurd Seattle Times hit on Darcy Burner:
Harvard, as you know, is old and fancy. Consequently, it has a lot of old and fancy terminology and procedures that differ somewhat from the American norm. They don’t, for example, ...
WA-08: A Message from Darcy Burner
dailykos.com 11/4/2008 — You heard her, and she's speaking for all the Democratic House and Senate candidates. Leave it all on the road. GOTV!
Why Darcy Burner Lost the Washington 8th Congressional District
groupnewsblog.net 11/8/2008 — Darcy Burner. 2008. Location/photographer unknown. My heart is breaking. Darcy has given everything she is and has to win. We lost in the last ten days because Corporate Media manipuated the voters . Period. Full Stop. Darcy was ahead by FOUR ...
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