WA Update
Safeco exec Mike McGavick made his U.S. Senate bid official. (Warning: Pravda-Seattle PI.)
That should be an interesting race.
For those who might have forgotten, MediaCrat incumbent Maria Cantwell won her seat back in Nov. 2000 by a margin of 2,200 corpses, er, votes, against a weak GOP incumbent, who had been left hanging while the perma-inept national GOP had moved mountains and valleys to help re-elect Jim Jeffords in Vermont (who won by 40 percentage points, 66-26), all during an election cycle in which conservatives throughout the country stayed home literally by the millions.
Yep.
Dino Rossi proved last November that a Republican businessman from the western part of the state can run very strongly up there.
Quite unlike multi-term incumbents (for whom the statistical probabilities of re-election are overwhelming), it’s possible for *freshman* Senators who face strong or even decent candidates to be quite vulnerable. Just ask Carol Moseley-Braun. Or Rod Grams. Or Spencer Abraham. Or Max Cleland. Or Tim Hutchinson. Or Lauch Faircloth.
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