Lt. Governor

[Nonny]

Who is getting your vote for Lt. Governor? Both Heck and Liias seem like completely competent guys who would be fine for the job, and both have endorsements by groups I trust.

Any personal experiences that swayed you one way or the other? Any scandals I might be unaware of?

I know who I'm leaning towards (and assuming my mail gets here anytime soon, I should be voting later this evening), but this is the one race where I could be persuaded because of how similar the candidates seem to me.

[Nonny]

Oct 16, 2020 19:30:58 GMT -5 turbo said:

I’m actually worried we’re going to end up with Freed because the Republicans will all write-in and we will end up splitting the Dem vote between two candidates.

Ugh... I hadn't even thought of that, but that feels like an incredibly valid concern. Do you have any idea how Freed's write-in campaign is going? I've seen a handful of signs (a couple little ones, and one big home-billboard style), but I don't feel like King County is really an accurate representation. 

[InBetweenDays]

I'll likely vote Denny Heck. I have some peripheral interactions with him through work (science/research/water quality related) and it has all been positive.

[Nonny]

Oct 17, 2020 0:41:30 GMT -5 turbo said:

Oct 16, 2020 20:17:48 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Ugh... I hadn't even thought of that, but that feels like an incredibly valid concern. Do you have any idea how Freed's write-in campaign is going? I've seen a handful of signs (a couple little ones, and one big home-billboard style), but I don't feel like King County is really an accurate representation. 

My husband got a text message encouraging him to write in Freed. We don’t even know why he would have been on their lists because he votes D and has given a lot of money to D candidates, especially this year.

I’ve seen people posting on neighborhood FB groups. In ours (18,000 residents) people have made posts. Our city put up info about ballot boxes and someone commented multiple times about writing in Freed. I think I saw signs hanging on an overpass over 405 or 90, too.

If they can get the message out it seems highly likely they’d be successful. R’a don’t have a candidate to choose in that race. At first I thought that was great but now I realized maybe it sucks to have two D’S facing off. We will see I guess.

I did a quick search of my neighborhood's FB page (also about 18K people on it) just to check, but our admins try to tamp down anything overtly political about one party. So, a post about "where is my ballot?" is OK, but a post saying "Vote Jay Inslee!" wouldn't be. 

I was stressing about this last night when I was trying to decide (I was leaning Liias) and my H found this SurveyUSA poll (it was on 538 for a presidential/governor poll, but if you dug into it also had a few others).

www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=544b4e4e-7820-4e83-b51a-41423dda3b8a

It's small, only about 850 people, but 31% of people were going for Heck, 18% for Liias, and 50% undecided. My H thinks Heck is going to win because he has stronger name recognition and that write in campaigns are mostly worthless (we did talk about Murkowski, but she was a known figure, and Freed isn't). He told me to vote my conscience, and pointed out that I would fall into the 50% undecided bucket, so I did, but if I had seen this post last night I think would have voted Heck instead.  :: Sigh ::

[picksthemusic]

I think we did Marko but not sure why. I hope it's not Freed.

[Beeps (WOT?*)]

I believe we split the vote here. And now I'm regretting it. H and I should have worked together to support one candidate to reduce the possibility of a split giving a write-in the seat.