{"id":3159,"date":"2008-10-31T13:27:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/31\/a-positive-poll-for-george-fearing-against-doc-hastings\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:27:42","slug":"a-positive-poll-for-george-fearing-against-doc-hastings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/31\/a-positive-poll-for-george-fearing-against-doc-hastings\/","title":{"rendered":"A positive poll for George Fearing against Doc Hastings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m mildly obligated to point to this<\/a>, and you can follow the various links there to further explosions of excitement.\u00c2\u00a0 It popped up in my “incoming links inbox”, which I think means Jimmy<\/a> was wavering on linking to something on this blog before deciding I had nothing to link.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, the last time I mentioned Doc Hastings, I was posting about Gordon Allen Pross,\u00c2\u00a0which is a\u00c2\u00a0clear demonstration of\u00c2\u00a0my misguided\u00c2\u00a0priorities.\u00c2\u00a0 But maybe he was looking for this:<\/p>\n

1994: JAY INSLEE, ousted. 51%, 48%.
\n1996:\u00c2\u00a0Rick Locke\u00c2\u00a0lost 52% to 48%.
\n1998: Gordon Allen Pross: 25%
\n2000: Jim Davis, 37%
\n2002: Craig Mason, 33%.
\n2004: Sandy Matheson 37%.
\n2006:\u00c2\u00a0 Richard Wright:\u00c2\u00a0 40%<\/p>\n

So, the would be Speaker-of-the-House<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(heh heh heh), Richard Doc Hastings, is up by a jarringly small margin over George Fearing in an internal poll.\u00c2\u00a0 I recall in 2004, and maybe\u00c2\u00a0even last time in 2006, the Democratic candidate releasing an internal poll really early on suggesting something of a race,\u00c2\u00a0but the poll was laughable and\u00c2\u00a0incredibly leading in its questioning — too much mischief designed to get some donations.\u00c2\u00a0 This doesn’t have that motivation, and is at least on the surface pretty straight forward — even if the margin of error suggests anything between Fearing winning by one and Doc Hastings winning by eleven.<\/p>\n

So, here in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 Who will win?\u00c2\u00a0 Doc Hastings.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0What — am I crazy?\u00c2\u00a0 You saw the past\u00c2\u00a0election results.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The only caveat is that\u00c2\u00a0in a “wave election” someone will win a seat nobody expected in their right mind could be won — as with 2006 and her<\/a>, her<\/a>, and him<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Somewhere on the map in this nation — a nation where Barack Obama is tossing some late dollars in the states of North Dakota, Arizona, and Georgia–,\u00c2\u00a0that seat exists.\u00c2\u00a0 And George Fearing wants you to believe it could be this seat.\u00c2\u00a0 Do what you can, true believers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m mildly obligated to point to this, and you can follow the various links there to further explosions of excitement.\u00c2\u00a0 It popped up in my “incoming links inbox”, which I think means Jimmy was wavering on linking to something on this blog before deciding I had nothing to link.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, the last time I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doc-hastings-and-the-4th-congressional-district-of-washington-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}