[Blue Screen of Death]

Y'all can get your knickers in a knot about Patty, but it will do no good. The voters that will elect her again in '04 are the same Birkenstock, Volvo, Latte Seattle socialists that elected Jim McDimwitt (Commie, Peoples republic of West Seattle) by 74%. There are enough of them in Seattle to win statewide offices in WA.

Naw, you mean that some hair headed pot smoking latte lapping sleepless scumbag in Seattle outvoted some Eastern Washington wheat farmer working 40,000 acres with a 40 million dollar budget and employing 400 people. Naw, say it ain't true.

[driftless]

Washington is not so different from many states. In 2000 Gore won my state of Wisconsin by only a few thousand votes out of about two million cast. But my congressman is a Dem as are both senators and the governor. Even my state senator is a Dem. In fact out of eight congressional districts, only one or two have Republicans for congressmen. The Madison district, as you might suspect, has Tammy Baldwin who is a lesbian. Guess what her political persuasion is?