The Seattle Times has just announced/declared Patty Murray the winner for the Senate seat from Washington State.
Dino Rossi is toast - toast x 3
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Reviewing the remaining 500,000 votes as yet not counted with the majority coming from King county - there is no way that Rossi can overcome Patti Murrays Democratic advantage in King County.
In the last numbers just added to the total -- her part of King country voters was 68% -- some more info...
Sen. Patty Murray has won a fourth term, riding a wave of strong Democratic support in King County to defeat Republican challenger Dino Rossi.
As of Thursday evening, Murray was leading Rossi by more than 45,000 votes, taking 51 percent to Rossi's 49 percent. That's up from a 14,000-vote lead on Election Day.
According to a Seattle Times analysis, Rossi would need to get about 54 percent of the estimated 591,000 uncounted ballots statewide to overcome Murray's lead.
But nearly 264,000 of those ballots are in King County. Murray's already commanding lead there has only expanded since Election Day. She took 68 percent of the 69,000 King County ballots counted Thursday.
To overcome King County's heavy support for Murray, Rossi would have to take about two-thirds of the remaining ballots in the rest of the state. So far he's received 53.2 percent of those non-King County votes.
That makes Rossi's task virtually impossible, even though hundreds of thousands of ballots remain to be counted statewide.
UPDATED -- per non de plume
Rossi Concedes
Times just said Dino conceded!!!
He's finally getting the hang of it ...
"Rossi called Murray at about 6 p.m. to concede, according to Alex Glass, Murray's deputy campaign manager."
by nom de plume on Thu Nov 04, 2010 at 06:26:42 PM PDT
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So finally -- good riddance to Dino Rossi. May we never see his name on a ballot again