Well, I don’t see how Rossi wins and McCain doesn’t. That just doesn’t fly.
It does fly. Rossi is already more popular than McCain in the state. When McCain was trailing Obama by double digits, Rossi was in a statistical dead heat with Gregorie. There are alot of independedants in Washington that were going to vote for Rossi regardless because they know he won last time and Gregorie stole it.
With Palin on the ticket, she's having a coattail effect and getting some people (mostly Hillary-leaning moderate females) who normally don't vote Republican to cross over and vote GOP this time around to "punish" the Dems. (perhaps they're going to vote straight GOP out of spite, the opposite effect some bozos had in 2006) They're boosting McCain's numbers, and they're boosting Rossi's too. So McCain is going from his former margin of 43% to now gettting 48%, while Rossi goes from his former margin of 47% to now getting 52%.