2nd Count Is Even Tighter in Washington State Race
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The election was already achingly close, but the recount in the race for governor of Washington State was almost absurdly close, the results showed Wednesday.
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Washington Stateâs 78 delegates are highly coveted by the Democratic contenders; the state holds caucuses on Saturday.
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Washington Democrat Christine Gregoire was declared winner of the governor&#39;s race by 129 votes, continuing the party&#39;s two-decade hold on the office after a recount of votes that reversed a Republican victory.
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Washington&#39;s astonishingly close gubernatorial race is making people in other states nervous: Could it happen here? Any election in which the leading candidate has a margin of 0.009 percent, then 0.003 percent
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Republican Dino Rossi called for a new election in the race for Washington governor Wednesday night, a day before Democrat Christine Gregoire is to be certified as the winner by 129 votes.
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Sen. John Kerry is working, but not too hard, to keep Washington state in the Democratic column.
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Ballots are still being counted to determine who will be Washington state's next governor, but if residents are getting antsy, they're not showing it.
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IT&#39;S NOW A TWO-FRONT WAR: Democrats announce a second recount of the 2.9 million ballots cast for governor, and head to state Supreme Court to seek a broader ballot count.
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Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed ordered a recount of the state&#39;s gubernatorial race on Wednesday after the final tally showed only 261 votes separated the top two candidates.
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A chronology of events in disputed governor's race in Washington state:
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Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor's race by 130 votes out of 2.9 million ballots cast, according to final recount results announced Thursday from Seattle's King County, the last of the state's 39 counties to report.
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Rasmussen Reports - Senator Maria Cantwell (D) has opened a double digit lead in the Washington Senate race. As a result, Rasmussen Reports is shifting its classification of the race from &quot;Leans Democrat&quot; to &quot;Democrat.&quot; There are now 41 states solidly in the Democratic column with four more leaning that way. Forty-eight states appear to be in good shape for the GOP with one more leaning in their direction. Six races are considered Toss-Ups.
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Republican Dino Rossi was declared the winner of the Washington governor&#39;s race by 42 votes, the closest margin in the state&#39;s history.
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TABLES TURNED: Democrat Christine Gregoire has a 10-vote lead over Republican Dino Rossi in the Washington governor's race, her first advantage since the Nov. 2 election.
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Democrats in the US state of Washington say hand recount results from one county give its candidate a narrow victory in the November governor&#39;s race.
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Seven weeks after 2.8 million people  voted to elect a governor for Washington state, the Democratic  candidate took the lead by a 10-vote margin in an unprecedented  hand recount, election officials said on Wednesday.
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After a bruising election and two recounts, Democrat Christine Gregoire emerged as the winner by a 130-vote margin in Washington state&#39;s astonishingly close governor&#39;s race.