Sen. John Kerry is coming to Washington state Friday and Saturday. Details to come on the Friday events in Seattle and Everett, the campaign says. Here's the dope on Saturday, event at the Tacoma Dome (RACING! RACING! RACING! MONSTER TRUCKS!!!!!!!!)
Details for Saturday August 28th Tacoma Rally:
WHEN: Gates open at 9:30 am
WHERE: Parking lot B at the Tacoma Dome, 2727 East D Street, Tacoma
Free and open to the public and will take place rain or shine.
Slate, the online magazine, has been touring the so-called swing states and giving assessments of their electoral status. Chris Suellentrop, a pretty astute political reporter, writes about Washington state today.
His assessment: We're not really a swing state at all.
Kerry should win, perhaps by double digits.
But both parties are treating it like a swing state, he reports, because there are so many other competitive races that truly could go either way: the 5th congressional race over in Spokane; the 8th congressional on the Eastside, Sen. Patty Murray's re-election bid against Rep. George Nethercutt and the governor's race, which will have Republican developer and former state senator Dino Rossi taking on either Christine Gregoire or Ron Sims.
So for now, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are coming here and treating it like a battleground state because they want to help support (financially and electorally) their candidates down the ticket. But look for Bush to concede later in the campaign. That's Suellentrop's view, anyway.
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