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When we asked Washington voters who they thought the Media was rooting for, 52% said Barack Obama…while only 8% feel the Media is rooting for John McCain.  35% think the Media is trying to be fair to both of them.Want to see full results of this poll? You can see them right here.

John McCain will be nominated this week as the Republican candidate for president. He likely will ride effortlessly through the party's national convention in St. Paul, MN. But in Washington state, McCain will share the ballot this fall with Republicans trying to distance themselves from the national party and doing little to link arms with the McCain campaign. Dino Rossi, a Republican who lists his party preference as "GOP Party," is doing his best to bask in Barack Obama's message of change as he tries to unseat Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire. Rossi talks so much about Obama on the campaign...

John McCain has picked up a little ground on Barack Obama, now trailing by only two points in a recent SurveyUSA poll in MN, and by seven in WA. However, McCain has gained significantly in WA: Obama was down four, McCain up five from the last poll. Both are of LIKELY voters.

Democrat Barack Obama defeats Republican John McCain 51% to 44% in an election for President of the United States in Washington State today, 08/13/08, 83 days until the election, according to this latest SurveyUSA pre-election tracking poll conducted exclusively for KING-TV in Seattle and KATU-TV in Portland Oregon. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released one month ago, when Obama led by 16 points, Obama is down by 4 points; McCain is up 5. Among women, Obama had led by 22, now leads by 15. Among men, Obama had lead by 10, now trails by 1. Among voters younger than...

Dear Mr. ____________: Thank you for writing me regarding your support for oil drilling in the United States. I appreciate hearing your views on this important matter. Just this week, I filled up my gas tank in Washington State at $4.45 a gallon. I understand and share your concern about how high gas prices are affecting families, businesses, and our entire economy, and I am dedicated to finding solutions to this problem. There are many options that I am discussing with my colleagues, from addressing speculation in the futures market to expanding the number of leases for land available to...

As Election Day draws closer, the governor’s race in Washington, a replay of the 2004 contest, keeps getting more competitive. Incumbent Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire now leads by just four percentage points. A month ago, she was up by six points over Republican challenger Dino Rossi. Two months ago, the incumbent held a seven-point lead and the month before that, Governor Gregoire enjoyed aneleven-point lead. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows Gregoire attracting 47% of the vote while Rossie earns 43%. This is the second straight month that Greogoire’s support has stayed below the 50% mark....

Olympia, WA (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll shows a plurality of voters favor a measure appearing on the November ballot in Washington that would make the state the second to legalize assisted suicide. Only Oregon currently allows the grisly practice and I-1000 would have Washington state follow suit.The latest statewide Elway Poll of Washington voters shows so many voters are undecided about where they stand on the measure that neither side has a majority.Some 39 percent of those polled said they favor the assisted suicide measure while 26 percent opposed it.The poll of 405 registered voters was taken July...

Washington state GOP hits Michelle Obama I am glad I am not the only one who thinks Michelle Obama is fair game for saying the outrageous things she has said. In anticipation of her meeting with liberal Washington Governor Chris Gregoire, the state GOP produced this video. http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=zOcU-BP0T4c&rel=1&eurl=http%3A//www.typepad.com/t/app/weblog/post&iurl=http%3A//i.ytimg.com/vi/zOcU-BP0T4c/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskIJonIElc-TAm7UrL1cJB8M&fs=1&hl=en

Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna leads his Democratic challenger by seven points, a poll indicates. McKenna-who is seeking a second, four-year term- leads Democrat John Ladenburg 49 percent to 42 percent, according to a SurveyUSA poll released this week. The poll found that 23 percent of Democrats will cross party lines to vote for McKenna, a popular Republican. Meanwhile, 11 percent of registered Republicans said they plan to support Ladenburg, the Pierce County executive.

It's been 24 years since a Republican candidate for president came out on top in Washington state. Given our longtime blue-state status, what chance does John McCain have of beating Barack Obama here? For that matter, will he even try? So far, the McCain campaign has sent mixed signals. When McCain held a fundraiser in Bellevue — including a $31,000 per person "Victory Dinner" — none of the money raised that evening went to the Washington State Republican Party. Instead, it was divided among the McCain campaign, the national GOP and the state parties in places that both sides view...

SPOKANE — The state Republican Party adopted a platform Saturday that includes a provision aimed at opposing automatic citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. The state party approved a similar platform plank at its 2006 convention that proved controversial. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution recognizes citizenship for all persons born in the United States. "Immigration is an issue that a lot of our party activists feel strongly about," state Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser said. "And it's certainly a very defensible position. It's not at all something that's based on race concerns. It's a...

The Pacific Northwest is beginning to look like very friendly territory for Barack Obama. Last week, Rasmussen Reports polling showed that Obama had opened a double-digit lead over John McCain in Oregon. Now, Obama has done the same in Washington state (see video report). The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Washington finds Barack Obama leading John McCain 51% to 40%. For Obama, that’s an improvement since late-March when the presumptive Democratic nominee led his Republican counterpart by five percentage points. Nationally, Obama and McCain are essentially even in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. In...

The re-election prospects for Washington Governor Christine Gregoire (D) have improved significantly over the past two months. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Washington voters shows Gregoire leading her Republican challenger, Dino Rossi, by eleven percentage points. It’s Gregoire 52% Rossi 41%. In late March, Gregoire was up by just a statistically insignificant single percentage point. In February, Rossi had a one point advantage. Four years ago, the 2004 election between the same two candidates was one of the closest elections in the state’s history.

The Spokane County Republican Party formally rejected the Iraq policy of their current president and their party’s likely nominee, saying American troops shouldn’t be on overseas missions for more than six months without a formal declaration of war. At a county convention that some party leaders said may have set an attendance record for Republicans in Spokane, supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul Saturday handily defeated an attempt to scale back the platform’s stringent limitation on using American troops on foreign soil. They beat back an attempt by delegate Ritajane Boyce of Spokane to swap the platform’s position on the...

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Washington state voters finds John McCain and Barack Obama essentially tied in a general election match-up. McCain leads Obama 45% to 44%. McCain tops Hillary Clinton 48% to 40% in the Evergreen State.

He may have boasted of his big family, his political rise and his legislative triumphs, but speaking Tuesday night before hundreds of Clark County building industry professionals, Dino Rossi was all businessman."I came from a world of no salary, no benefits; you don't work, you don't eat - I understand the free enterprise system," the Republican gubernatorial candidate said at the Vancouver event, to laughter and applause. "And I sign the front side of paychecks."Rossi, a former commercial real estate broker and state senator who lives in Sammamish, is five months into what he expects to be a rematch against...

John McCain's victory in the Washington State Presidential Primary tonight should surprise no one. His thrashing of Mike Huckabee, however, and the latter's poor overall showing, is a fascinating storyline. McCain's win in another non-Southern state tonight was likewise anti-climatic, though thanks to the meaningful and competitive Democratic primary in Wisconsin there was actually an exit poll conducted for the dissection of political junkies. It showed Mike Huckabee getting pounded among non-Evangelicals, losing to McCain 67% - 24%. Those voters comprised 62% of Wisconsin voters casting GOP ballots. That's a pathetic showing in a two-man race. Alas, there is no...

The polls don't close for 25 hours, but it's never too early to start a live thread. Actually, very few people will actually go to "the polls" on Tuesday. The state is almost entirely "vote by mail". Voting has been going on for more than two weeks.

John McCain is expected to win Washington state's Republican presidential primary Tuesday, but is not widely supported by GOP activists there, a report said. The Arizona senator is the presumptive Republican nominee, leading long shot rivals former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Texas Rep. Ron Paul in the race for delegates. Thurston County Republican Gene Pardee told The Seattle Times that McCain is not his first, or even second, choice. He originally supported former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson and then when he exited the race he supported Huckabee. Pardee said he'll vote Tuesday for Huckabee to "send a signal to...

One feature of the four-year political struggle between Gov. Chris Gregoire and almost-Gov. Dino Rossi has been an abundance of suspect and self-serving opinion surveys. At last comes a poll, albeit with a few weeks under its belt, that surprised its takers. Washington Conservation Voters hired Grove Insight, Portland's top pollster, in November to see if Evergreen State voters are ready to walk the talk against global warming. WCV threw in a series of questions that were NOT mentioned in the Jan. 22 news release announcing poll results. The key finding: The Gregoire-Rossi race is dead even. In a trial...

With the start of the annual Muslim festival of Eid al Adha on Sunday, drawing thousands of believers from around Washington state to Seattle for prayer, political activists saw an opportunity. A team of volunteers roamed the crowd, or manned booths, signing up those qualified to vote. A major push for Muslim voter registration drive was on at similar gatherings throughout the country.

Speaking on KTTH Radio today in Seattle, the Washington State Republican Chairman, Luke Esser, skillfully presented his response to presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee regarding allegations that Esser's order to stop the counting of caucus delegate preferences amounted to methods deployed by the now defunct Soviet Union. Explaining that he did not order the count to be stopped, Esser asserted that the count paused only for the evening and Sunday in order to let the all volunteer work force rest for the night and time to attend Sunday church services the following day. Expressing understanding that some would be unhappy with...

Nothing. People from all over the media, from Josh Marshall to Tim Russert, and Mike Huckabee, are talking about the party declaring a winner, whether it was too soon, and so on. But what the party said about the results literally means nothing at all. This is clear if you understand the process. The results were released just so that the party could make some news. They have no meaning. The first thing to understand is that people do not always vote by presidential preference. In my caucus, and in many others in my pooled caucus, presidential preference never even...

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee cried foul Sunday after John McCain's apparent victory in the Washington state caucuses Saturday. Huckabee's campaign released a statement saying that it will be exploring all available legal options regarding the "dubious final results." Arizona Sen. McCain was announced as the victor in the caucuses. Sunday, he had 25 percent of the vote; Huckabee had 23.8 percent. Meanwhile, Democrat Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in Maine's presidential caucuses Sunday, as that state's Democrats overlooked snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal gatherings. Obama won 15 of Maine's delegates to the...

Vote-counting mischief in Washington’s GOP primary? Posted February 11th, 2008 at 9:20 am Share This | Spotlight | Permalink By Saturday night, John McCain had already experienced a pretty rough day. He’d been trounced by Mike Huckabee in the Kansas caucuses, and then learned he’d been beaten handily in Louisiana GOP primary. In Washington state, which was supposed to be a far easier win for the Arizona senator, McCain was trailing Huckabee for part of the night, but with 87% of the precincts reporting, McCain had a narrow lead, which was less than two percentage points. That’s when it got...

By Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Republican Mike Huckabee's campaign wants a vote-by-vote recount of Washington state Republican caucus results that apparently gave Arizona Sen. John McCain a narrow win. Huckabee adviser Jim Pinkerton says an attorney for the campaign is already in Washington, working with other attorneys in Arkansas to investigate their concerns about Saturday's caucus. Pinkerton says they want their attorneys and elections experts to determine the validity of the caucus results. State party Chairman Luke Esser called the race for McCain on Saturday night with 87 percent of results in. As of Sunday night, with more...

The results of the state Republican caucuses were called into question today after presidential candidate Mike Huckabee challenged the party's declaration that Arizona Sen. John McCain had won the delegate count. Huckabee's campaign took issue with the fact that Washington state Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser called the race Saturday night with 87 percent of the precincts counted. At that point, McCain was ahead of Huckabee by 242 delegates out of the 13,000 counted, Esser said. The Huckabee campaign contends there were another 1,500 or so delegates not counted. In the face of the Huckabee protest, the state Republican Party...

Mike Huckabee is challenging the results of the Washington state Republican caucuses, his campaign announced Sunday, after accusing the state party chairman of calling the election for John McCain before all the votes were counted. The campaign will be pursuing a full investigation, including sending in lawyers to join those already on the scene in the state, officials told FOX News. -SNIP- FOX News’ Serafin Gomez contributed to this report

Fox News has learned that the Huckabee campaign has called for a “full investigation” into the Washington State Caucus results, and are sending campaign lawyers to the state to help in that pursuit. Ed Rollins, Huckabee campaign chairman, directly challenged Washington State GOP Chairman Luke Essers move in anounncing that John McCain had won the tight race with only 87.2 percent of the votes counted. ” The chairman showed very bad judgement in stopping the voting last night when announcing John McCain had won, when there was less that a 200 vote margin between the two candidates,” Rollins told Fox...

WASHINGTON--Arizona Senator John McCain eked out a narrow victory in the Republican Party's caucuses in the northwestern state of Washington, the state party chairman announced late Saturday. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee earlier Saturday defeated McCain in Republican presidential primaries in Louisiana and Kansas. McCain, 71, a Vietnam war hero, is far ahead of his opponents in the delegate count and is the party's presumptive 2008 presidential standard bearer, though he faces opposition from core Republican conservatives. With 87 percent of precincts reporting in Washington state, McCain led with 26 percent of the delegates, against 24 percent for Huckabee and...

February 10, 2008- Seattle, WashingtonNews Huckabee won't concede Washington state, cites 'legal issues' Story Updated: Feb 10, 2008 at 10:02 AM PST By KOMO Staff & News Services SEATTLE - Republican Mike Huckabee says he's not ready to concede Washington state, even though the state Republican Party has declared Arizona Sen. John McCain the winner of Saturday's caucuses. On NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday morning, the former Arkansas governor said his campaign is looking into some legal issues, without going into specifics. With 87 percent of GOP precincts reporting statewide, McCain leads the GOP field with 25.5 percent of delegates...

As a member of the Washington State Republican State Committee I wanted to make sure some information about the caucus got out. 49% of WA delegates are decided by the Caucus and Convention process. After Feb 9th Caucuses, the next step is the County Conventions, at which time delegates elected on Feb. 9th meet to discuss the Platform and Elect delegates to the State Convention. It is at the State Convention that the delegates from each county meet by Congressional District to elect delegates to the National Convention (with a promise of a vote on the first balloting). 51% are...

Fox News says AP has called The Washington Caucus for John Mccain.

Although Arizona Sen. John McCain has seized a commanding lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, Washington's Republican caucus-goers showed they are still very divided on their party's nominee. With 87 percent of precincts reporting Saturday night, the state party declared McCain the victor with only a narrow lead over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul a fairly close third. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who suspended his presidential campaign last week, also received a sizable chunk of delegates. - -clip- - In Auburn for his caucuses, former state Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance...

Barack Obama beat Hillary Rodham Clinton in Democratic contests in Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington State as Mike Huckabee showed that he is still attracting Republican voters.

Barack Obama pummeled Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the latest round of their battle for the White House nomination on Saturday, earning momentum and valuable delegates with big wins in Washington and Nebraska caucuses. Obama registered comfortable victories in both states, outscoring Clinton by margins of roughly 2 to 1, according to media projections. His triumphs will boost the Illinois senator's campaign to be the country's first black president, after a fierce Super Tuesday duel that saw the two share the honors. It was not immediately clear how many delegates Obama picked up from his victories on Saturday, with the...

SEATTLE, Washington (AFP) - Barack Obama pummeled Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the latest round of their battle for the White House nomination on Saturday, earning momentum and valuable delegates with big wins in Washington and Nebraska caucuses.Obama registered comfortable victories in both states, outscoring Clinton by margins of roughly 2 to 1, according to media projections.His triumphs will boost the Illinois senator's campaign to be the country's first black president, after a fierce Super Tuesday duel that saw the two share the honors.It was not immediately clear how many delegates Obama picked up from his victories on Saturday, with...

OBAMA TAKES ALL 3; AS HILLARY CRIES AGAIN

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama won caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state and battled Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Louisiana primary Saturday night in a bid to chip away at her slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama was winning nearly 70 percent support in Nebraska, compared with 31 percent for Clinton, in caucuses with 24 delegates at stake. He also had 67 percent support in Washington state caucuses, compared with 32 percent for Clinton with returns tallied from about one-half of the state's precincts. There were 78 delegates at stake, the...

The Cauci don't begin until 1pm pacific time, but it's never too early to start a live thread.

Versus Hillary: 47% McCain 49% Clinton 43% Giuliani 52% Clinton 41% Huckabee 54% Clinton 41% Romney 55% Clinton Versus Obama: 43% McCain 50% Obama 38% Giuliani 55% Obama 37% Huckabee 55% Obama 35% Romney 57% Obama Geography Surveyed: State of Washington Data Collected: 12/13/2007 - 12/15/2007 Release Date: 12/19/2007 11:30 AM ET Sponsors: KATU-TV Portland, KING-TV Seattle Sample: 513 RVs MoE: ± 4.4%

In just over a month, the first round of presidential decision-making will kick off with the 2008 Iowa caucuses. Yet, despite the early state focus, several Republican front-runners already are directing their attention to the Evergreen State, which they believe could be competitive next year. Surprising, isn't it? Washington has not gone to a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984, and the state boasts two Democratic senators, six Democratic members of Congress, a Democratic governor and a Democratic-controlled Legislature. Of course, Washington has elected Republicans from outside the conservative mainstream, such as Sens. Slade Gorton and Dan Evans (who also...

47% McCain 46% Clinton 7% Undecided 43% Giuliani (-4 from mid-September) 50% Clinton (+3) 7% Undecided 42% Fred Thompson (0) 52% Clinton (0) 6% Undecided 39% Romney (0) 54% Clinton (0) 7% Undecided

Let’s be honest, does Hillary Clinton really want to run against Law and Order’s District Attorney Arthur Branch? The once actor, once senator, once lawyer and once blue collar worker Fred Thompson has now turned into a presidential candidate. Thompson could now be the Republicans’ savior in the 2008 election. After announcing his candidacy for president a little more than a month ago, Thompson has gained popularity quickly. Many may think this is because of his “celebrity” status or his “trophy” wife; however, I have a different theory. If Thompson wins the primary and becomes the Republican representative for the...

John Jolly is searching for something meaningful in American politics, and he thinks he's found it in Ron Paul. Wearing a "Ron Paul for President" T-shirt, Jolly joined more than 200 other enthusiastic listeners Friday to hear Paul speak at Seattle University in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. "This is kind of my first foray into politics," Jolly, 23, said, his red hair cut short, his sideburns trimmed into large muttonchops. "I'm looking for something different." A 10-term congressman from East Texas who ran as the Libertarian candidate for president in 1988, Paul, 72, stands in sharp contrast...