Can we safely assume that Richard Pope, winner of the three way primary, will lose to Frank LaSalata because people who voted for the incumbent Ottinger would be highly unlikely to vote for Pope? One hopes so.
I'm proud to say that my wife and I voted for LaSalata, and given that his margin over Ottinger was 27 votes, it mattered!
[Update] Ok, I'd originally intended this as a simple question, because in the past I've found the Seattle dKos'ers to be pretty fast to respond to a local diary.
But for those outside the area, here's the story. The incumbent, Mary Ann Ottinger, had served for 14 years, mostly ably but with some problems for which she was censured a couple of years ago. Judges are non-partisan races here so I don't know with what general party or philosophy she is associated, but I think in previous elections before her censure problems she was endorsed by Democrats.
Anyway, her problems attracted two primary (judges are voted for in the primary, with a runoff in the general if needed) challengers. Frank LaSalata was endorsed by the local Democratic organization (King County Democrats). Richard Pope ... well read the Seattle PI or google him. He's some sort of libertarian populist, or at least he has in the past laid claim to a libertarian mantle.
Note that in that Seattle PI article, LaSalata had lost the primary. Well, that was before absentee ballots, then he came second, then there was a hand recount and he still came second.
So it's an interesting story, and my vote certainly counted in an election that close, but I'm still wondering if there's a conventional wisdom about what will happen in the general.