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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie May 24, 2004 01:40am |
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| Media | Newspaper - The Stranger |
| News Date | Monday, May 24, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Stranger
by Sandeep Kaushik
In Seattle, we live in a liberal bubble, where Christian fundamentalism is a superstition banished to the rube-choked outlying suburbs, where class inequalities are acknowledged (on occasion) in the formulation of government policy, and where the hippie-dippy claptrap spewed by the bourgeois bohemians passes for intelligent discourse. From the perspective of a city where Howard Dean ruled supreme, it seems impossible to imagine that Republican conservatives could ever sweep to power in what seems a midnight-blue state like Washington.
Think again. Remember, Seattle really is a bubble, 85 square miles surrounded by reality, as conservative former city attorney Mark Sidran likes to joke. The latest news from the real world showed up in a recent private poll that has Eastern Washington congressman George Nethercutt, a staunch conservative who's running against longtime Seattle-style D Sen. Patty Murray, only trailing Murray by a surmountable nine percentage points, 50-41. The crucial number, Nethercutt's people say, is Murray's weak reelect number--only 41 percent of the state's voters believe she deserves reelection, according to their data. Generally, incumbents posting reelect numbers under 50 percent are considered to be vulnerable, and state Republican Party chair Chris Vance says the extensive national party support Nethercutt is receiving--Virginia senator and National Republican Senatorial Committee chair George Allen and Vice President Dick Cheney visited to stump for Nethercutt--is indicative of his prospects. |
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