Red wave? In WA the election washed up its usual shade of blue
By Danny Westneat
Seattle Times columnist
Whatever red wave was forecasted out across the nation on Tuesday had already diminished to a riffle by the time it reached Washington state. When it hit the Cascade Mountains, it completely went “pfft.”
What washed up into Puget Sound was deep blue instead — or as they also call it around here, the status quo.
This all added up to yet another triumph for Democratic U.S. senator Patty Murray. She fought off a record $25 million spent against her, some terribly-done conservative polling that misleadingly showed the race close, and a slew of “think pieces” by right-leaning pundits predicting that after 30 years in office, Murray had worn out her tennis shoes.
The map of her win looks like a GOP secessionist’s fever dream: Bright red in every Eastern Washington county, with dark blue in a handful of counties west of the Cascades.
In the end, Republican challenger Tiffany Smiley ran into the same big blue wall as every GOP Senate candidate before her. King County, with nearly a third of the state’s population, absolutely walloped her, voting by 48 points, 74% to 26%, to return Murray for another 6-year term.
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