In the spirit of leave everything on the road, I figured I'd make sure people in the Kos community know about another close congressional race in Washington State. This one is in Central Washington, where Democrat Geroge Fearing is looking to unseat incumbent conservative Doc Hastings. Think of Fearing as "Central Washington's Darcy Burner."
To be honest, few in Western Washington were really paying attention to this race, assuming Hastings had a safe lead.
Then I read this on Fearing's blog
We just received word that the race for the 4th Congressional District (Central WA) is in play.
New polling shows George Fearing (D) is within 5% of unseating incumbent conservative Doc Hastings! The poll by Bainbridge Media Group reads:
On the question of whom to support, 52.5% would vote for Doc Hastings; 47.5% would chose George Fearing... The data demonstrate that there is little question Democratic Congressional Candidate George Fearing may defeat 14-year incumbent Republican Congressman Doc Hastings.
We anticipated that George was close and we are now making a final push to remove Doc Hastings from office.
Looks like we have another opportunity for a Democratic pickup. The best part about the "final push" is that media buys in sparsely populated Central Washington are dirt cheap, so we can make a big difference with just a bit of dough:
Every $1000 will buy 100 radio ads. You need to know that you can really make this race happen, so please go online right now to help!
When radio ads cost $10 and TV ads cost $25, your money will make a huge difference. Please donate just $10 or $25 today.
Today is the final day of fundraising for 2008. Please give what you can on Fearing's ActBlue donation site.