She is so confused about politics and the failure of her and Obama to close the deal is the real story. We have the two candidates that will be defeated come Nov. not by their opponents.

With regard to your article on protecting veterans from discrimination, it is not hard to predict that Gregoire will oppose any bill to protect veterans' rights to compete fairly for employment. As attorney general, Gregoire spent more then $55,000 to keep me from ever working for the State of Washington because I served two combat tours in Vietnam. She also spent over $500,000 on ten lawsuits to deny other veterans state employment and have her judge friends declare veterans' preference unconstitutional in Washington, after the law had been in force for half a century. Gregoire has a two class plan for Washington: non-veterans work and support themselves, while veterans live on the dole from the state in homeless shelters.

Funny how Christine Gregoire was the Grand Marshall of the Pride parade yet consistently refuses to address what some would call their biggest issue: Gay Marriage.

I predict that non answers like this will plague the rest of Christine Gregoire's campaign... on everything from Education, Transportation to Health Care and the Environment, let alone social issues like Gay Marriage.

Maybe she won't respond to any more hypotheticals... in that case she can save us all the trouble and suspend her campaign now. Hypothetically, (and i think in reality), Dino Rossi would make a much better governor.

Funny, from her ads, I got the impression she was running against George Bush! ; )

thank a democrack in Nov for the high gasoline prices VOTE NO

Unfortunately for the governor, most new young voters want change. Change from divisive politics (like an incumbent's first two ads being negative ads attacking her opponent). Change from massive spending that turns surpluses into record deficits. Change from one party controlling the executive for eight straight years, or twenty-four, for that matter. New Obama voters have far more in common with Dino Rossi than governor Gregoire.

Gregoire would be wise to lock on with Mayor Nichols.

He spent over 5 million for some toilets; today has them on E-bay trying to recoup the cost with a bid of .99 each.

Gregoire had the opportunity to collect over 150 million from the tribes and said no thanks knowing we had a deficit of over 2 billion same mental challenges Nichols has.

"...Funny how Christine Gregoire was the Grand Marshall of the Pride parade yet consistently refuses to address what some would call their biggest issue: Gay Marriage. .."

Anyone whjo's "biggest issue" is gay marriage ought to have their head examined.
The republicans can't run away fast enough from the Christian right's social agenda and all the damage it's wrought on the GOP.
Don't look for Rossi to get caught-up in that one this time around.
It's simply off the table, and should have been long ago when our current problems were brewing-up while conservatives diverted their energy into something that's simply none of government's business - so sayeth a growing majority of Americans who've finally had enough of that particular neo-conservative nonsense.

Paul G.
I doubt you will see majorities of young voters flocking to Rossi. The republican brand is badly and justifiably damaged. I would hope anyone ignorant enough to not know the GOP and republican party are one and the same will get lost on the way to the polls or leaves their mail in ballot on the dashboard a week too long.
As for the negative ads, you refer to the ads run by groups in support of Gregoire as ads run by the Gregoire campaign. Are you holding Rossi to the same standard with the BIAW ads?

JamesB,

Two things. First, most of the new young voters supporting Senator Obama do so not out of brand loyalty to a party, but because of ideas like change, post-partisanship, and sensible government. When Senator Rossi was chariman of the ways and means committee, he wrote a bipartisan budget that passed the democratic-controlled house, was signed by the democratic governor, and which closed the (then) largest budget deficit in state history without raising taxes and while providing services for the truly vulnerable in our state. That is exactly the kind of public servant young Obama supporters flock to.

Second, I am talking only about ads the campaigns themselves have produced. Dino Rossi has run radio and television ads that are positive and about himself. The governor's first two radio ads were negative and about her opponent. She claimed, for example, that Dino Rossi wants to limit Roe v. Wade, despite the fact that he is neither running for the Supreme Court of the United States, and that he has promised that he will not attempt to change Washington's abortion laws. Those kind of negative, petty, small ads are exactly the kind of politics against which Senator Obama is running.

If those young voters want change and bi-partisan, common sense government, they will vote Obama for President and Rossi for govenor.

Paul G,
I think you underestimate the media savvy and general sophistication of the "new young voters" supporting Obama.
They are smart enough to measure a candidate by the totality of his/her support, and Rossi's support is overtly negative, disingenuous, and represents a retreat from the progressive agenda Gregoire has instituted.
I think your argument better applies to "new young voters" supporting McCain.