We have excellent candidates in the open congressional seats
Reickert (sp?) looks very promising. After years of listening to overtly biased opinion from Dave Ross on KIRO, I'm salivating at the prospect of him facing a resounding defeat.
Reichert is very promising. He's going to be a superstar. He cruised to an easy win in a 4 way primary against strong opponents, and a poll just released shows him with a 16% lead over Dave Ross, 52%-36% with the rest undecided. I think he's got 90% chance at keeping the seat for us.
From there, who knows? He's got wide bi-partisan appeal and celebrity from his strenght during the WTO riots and capture of the Green River Killer, and he's good looking, got a razor sharp personality. He could easily make a run for Senate or Governor and would be in excellent shape to win.
Anyhow, I'm also extremely hopeful about Nethercutt and Rossi. Rossi has about the best personality and resume for a Republican politician as this state has ever seen, and Gregoir is already bruised from the primary fight. Nethercutt is a terriffic campaigner, and Murray is below 50%. Last Independant poll had it at 48%-41%. That's very winable. Even Murray's spokespeople admit their poll has Nethercutt gaining 10pts during the same time Murray has spent $2.7 million (although they say she's above 50%).
And then there is the AG race. McKenna has one big advantage: His opponents. It's still too close to call for sure (It's Senn for now, but late returning Absentees could very realistically swing it for Sidran), and the thing is, both of them have distinct vulnerabilities. Senn is seen by people on both sides as a grandstanding radical, i.e. why Gary Locke endorsed Sidran, and business hates her guts, and will undoubtedly dump money to defeat her.
Sidran on the other hand, faces other problems. He's not well known outside of King County, and he's very polarizing inside his own party. The green faction and the hard left faction didn't like him telling homeless people not to accost people, i.e. why he lost the Seattle Mayor's race, so a good portion of them might sit on their hands.
Either way, McKenna has a really good shot at winning.