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crosscut.com - 12/3/2008
The real reason Dino Rossi lost
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Elections always produce surprises, and this year the biggest surprise was the lack of drama in the Governor’s race. After four years of anticipating a cliffhanger, instead the networks called it for Gov. Chris Gregoire before we went to bed on election night, and Dino Rossi conceded the next ...

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Vance on Rossi
Sound Politics — Vance on Rossi With the election season behind us, Chris Vance has returned to the "pages" of Crosscut. His latest spends some time debunking myths about our recently concluded Governor's race. Importantly, he spends time continuing the necessary debunking of Stuart Elway, whose persistent claims of having the race right all along (and that the race was never close) run in stark opposition to almost every other fact on the ground, including polling by other public firms and the campaigns themselves. Of course, at one point Elway also claimed there wasn't much in the way of an ...

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HorsesAss.Org — Former Republican state chair Chris Vance, writing at Crosscut: Dino Rossi lost because voters realized Republicans don’t have a freaking clue about economics. Pretty much.

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