{"id":219,"date":"2004-12-23T08:19:07","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=219"},"modified":"2004-12-23T08:19:36","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T13:19:36","slug":"the-other-big-election-whowunnit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"The other big election whowunnit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s coming up on Christmas, and the state of Washington <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/news\/archive\/2004\/12\/22\/national1919EST0681.DTL\">still doesn&#8217;t know who its next governor will b<\/a>e.  Currently it MIGHT be Democrat Christine Gregoire, by a margin of a whopping 10 votes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRepublicans have begun preparing for a lawsuit, and vowed to seek out Rossi voters whose ballots were disqualified because of election workers&#8217; errors and ask canvassing boards to review them. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s certainly too close to call and [Republic contender Dino Rossi] is not conceding,&#8221; Rossi spokeswoman Mary Lane said. &#8220;This election is not over.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All indications are that this won&#8217;t be resolved before the current governor, Democrat Gary Locke, serves his term.  What fun it is when voters can&#8217;t be decisive and our candidates are that mediocre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmastime, and the state of Washington still doesn&#8217;t know who its next governor will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}