Today's Rassmussen Reports says that in a survey of 500 likely voters about the 2006 WA Senate race, Rossi attracts 47% of the vote to Cantwell's 44%
Overall, Rossi is viewed favorably by 55% of Washington's voters. Cantwell is viewed favorably by 54%.I also envision that soon-to-be Governor Rossi, by then in the middle of his second term, would be a very formidable challenger to Patty Murray in 2010.Governor Christine Gregoire is viewed favorably by 50%, although just 42% believe she legitimately won last November's election. Forty-four percent (44%) believe Rossi was the real winner while 15% don't know who won.
hat tip: Polipundit
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 25, 2005 11:36 AM | Email ThisRossi attracts 47% of the vote to Cantwell's 44% in a survey of 500 Likely Voters conducted February 22, 2005. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
Rossi "the man who narrowly lost the race to be Washington's Governor last November" should immediately agree to a "re-poll" because his "slight lead" is clearly within the margin of error and the poll itself admits that it is only 95% accurate so "we can never know who really won" this poll. Indeed - I am sure that we can expect the Snark to spend hours going through the list of 500 Likely Voters to make sure none were felons, voted in other states, or participated in more than one poll.
Rossi has a brighter future than any of these useless politicians in Washington State. He'll be Governor on his way to bigger and brighter things.
dpk,
If you're not worried, why are you here trying to stir things up? Your Playstation 2 is lonely and calling your name. It misses you after you played so much during election season.
Posted by: Larry on February 25, 2005 12:07 PMLet's just repeat that a few times until it starts to sink in for you knuckleheads:
"Dino Rossi, the man who narrowly lost the race to be Washington's Governor last November"
"Dino Rossi, the man who narrowly lost the race to be Washington's Governor last November"
"Dino Rossi, the man who narrowly lost the race to be Washington's Governor last November"
Are you starting to get it yet?
Posted by: dpk on February 25, 2005 12:25 PMFor the record, it was Patty Murray, the other dim bulb US Senator who said that - but MSM has successfully swept that under the carpet for now.
So Rossi is the presumed winner over Gregoire by an opinion of 44-42% - that has slipped a bit, to be expected. Time to go back to the courtroom soon. The collective public is gradually losing their memory - they need something to remind them again...
Posted by: KS on February 25, 2005 12:26 PMWhich Bellevue city department is paying you to hang out at my blog and make anonymous political statements? I'm sure my Bellevue readers want to know how their tax dollars are being used.
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on February 25, 2005 12:29 PMHello, City of Bellevue, please connect me to your IT department...
Posted by: Owner of DPK on February 25, 2005 12:32 PMMeanwhile, maybe our friend could go find some cars that use the slick new multi-million dollar ramps and overpasses for that "Access Downtown Bellevue" project on 405 that seems more-than-a-little under-utilized by anything other than half-empty buses.
Posted by: SnoCo Voter on February 25, 2005 01:21 PM
There's something fascinating yet disturbing about watching a leftie attempt to use logic, like watching a chain-saw juggler.
Shouldn't they be out polishing traffic lights or something????
Posted by: SnoCo Voter on February 25, 2005 01:29 PMSounds like Horse Math to me.
Posted by: bmvaughn on February 25, 2005 01:33 PMGo look at H.A. and see how they react to opposing opinions. dpk, you are not one to talk about humor, uh Don comes to mind, also a govn't employee.
Posted by: chardonnay on February 25, 2005 01:52 PMAnd dpk, you know you are doing a good job if The Great and Powerful Shark has to threaten you. Nice to know everyone here is so open to contrarian point of views. Next thing you know, they will just disapear any disenting posts like so many Jeff Gannon articles. Stalin would be proud.
Posted by: JDB on February 25, 2005 02:02 PMMan, these guys will believe anything. And Stefan didn't threaten dpk. He just illustrated the point made here, and on other posts, that government waste is rampant and CG is merely for more of the same.
(See folks, I was worried that dpk would skulk off into the shadows once his work at the public teet was announced.)
Posted by: dkpcowboy on February 25, 2005 02:07 PMAnd that most City employees are truly offended that you would impugn the integrity of all by your irresponsible actions here.
Shame on you dpk...you deserve whatever consequences come your way.
If dpk's real initials are dpk.....we will likely find him on America's Dumbest Criminals
(stealing from taxpayers by blogging while you are supposed to be working is a crime, isn't it??)
Sorry, I have a hard time dim-bulb liberals straight. I wonder if CBS would defend my attribution as fake, but accurate?
Posted by: Chuck Miller on February 25, 2005 02:56 PMChairman of the Committee for Protection of Stupid Leftist Bloggers---
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Now, I really don't have the time to check every post, but you know, people eat lunch and take breaks, even in the private sector. Or are you only allowed to if you drink the Kool-aid with the other wing nuts and chant "Revote, Revote, to hell with the Constitution!" over and over again?
You all are going to be very disapointed in the end. Rossi's popularity is nothing, Gregoire's is going up. And outside your little world, more and more people are thinking to themselves "You know, you really should be able to prove the election was changed, or show fraud, if you are going to remove Governor Gregoire from office."
I received comments from "dpk" at the following times today:
7:35am
9:28am
11:56am
12:25pm
that's quite a lunch hour!
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on February 25, 2005 07:58 PM41-2/3 + 43-2/3 + 14-2/3 = 100%.
If you round all three numbers to whole numbers and sum the rounded numbers, you get 101%.
Posted by: Ted Schuerzinger on February 25, 2005 08:30 PMOh JDB nice try defending your City of Bellevue working friend...Lunch hour--he must be on one of those fad diets where he has to eat 10 times per day, huh? Are you also a government worker JDB?
Posted by: Dude on February 25, 2005 08:39 PMBefore work started,
9:30 break
and lunch hour.
And, strange, I really don't have to push those numbers. Now, if you had twenty posts from 10-11:30, they would look bad. But heck, Stefan, why don't you throw up everyone's isp so we know who is slacking where? Or is it just people you diagree with? Or just public and not private sectors? I think you would be happy to have such dedicated fans.
Posted by: JDB on February 25, 2005 08:41 PMMore & More people are thinking " The longer this goes on(court battle), there must be Truth to It. The courts would have thrown it out long ago, if it didn't have substance"
Is the gracious Gov growth in popularity for her campaign promise of "NO NEW TAXES". So far she has only promised not to raise the B & O Tax, and State Sales Tax. She might use the same tactics to Balance the Budget as her Party (D's) did for winning the Hand Recount. I wont hold my breath though on her ability balancing the budget, unless she screws us taxpayers, which is almost like fraud. But hey, we are used to it, the Dem's have controlled this state for many years...
JDB, in regard to Lunch hour(s) research your post's, dpk eat's ALOT, or is on a "Sound Politics" Diet.....
Posted by: Chris on February 25, 2005 08:49 PMAnd we have JDB....... Is Jerry's Middle Initial "D"....
Just a thought....
Posted by: Chris on February 25, 2005 08:52 PMKeep in mind, this is only a "jerry w branson" doesnt mean it is one of the same in regard to above posts.
Posted by: Chris on February 25, 2005 09:01 PMJDB?
Get the heck off of this blog - ya loser!
My word!
Posted by: Deborah on February 25, 2005 10:18 PMlbloom.net
Posted by: chardonnay on February 25, 2005 11:16 PMAre the people of Washington State going to get an "after the fact" report on everything this woman does here? What a convenient way to sneak in a tax increase, sign a few liberal leaning bills, and further oppress the majority of people in this state!
I hope when she dines at the Whitehouse - they seat her in the back.......She should not be recognized as an official Governor of Washington state until this contest is over. It would be tacky of her to present herself as such...
Posted by: Deborah on February 25, 2005 11:58 PMDPK, say hi to Newman and the boys at the post office on your 3 hour lunch monday.
Posted by: Brad on February 26, 2005 07:16 AMRossi is a family man with young children in school. It would be hard on his family to uproot them and drag them 3000 miles across the country. He wants his kids to grow up in Washington, the state, not DC. So if he were to go to the Senate its either disrupt his family life, or live apart, which is no less disruptive.
Running for Senate would be a fool's errand. The dynamics of the Governor's race will not translate to a Senate race. Ne'erDoWell is roughly as popular in WA as Osama Bin Murray, who clobbered Nethercutt in the latest election. Rossi knows his best shot is to fight the fraud, and try to get Fraudoire and the other lousy, cheating Rats out of there. Stay focused, Washingtonians. The lousy Rats want nothing more than to distract you from the task at hand. Throwing out the bone of a U.S. Senate seat is nothing more than an unattainable consolation prize. Exposing and fighting the fraud of the last governor's race is more important than chasing rainbows (e.g., running for Senate).
Posted by: Interested Observer on February 26, 2005 09:31 AMIf they had any gumption, the advance men at the WH would refuse Fraudoire admission to the WH because of a lack of valid credentials. Tell the lousy Rats to send a legitimate governor. The national GOP pulled the rug out from under Rossi after convincing him to take this kamikaze ride and now they would do homage to his illegitimate usurper? Shame on them.
Then again, if the Republicans in the WA legislature had played it right, they would have walked out on Fraudoire's coronation. Why sit there and lend any air of credibility to a fraudulant process?
Posted by: Interested Observer on February 28, 2005 09:44 AM