from the Seattle Times: "GOP candidate Rossi said the "political makeup" of the high court would have made it almost impossible to get Bridges' decision overturned."
what Rossi is saying is 1, the judge's decision is rock-solid and, 2, the last thing the Warshington Rs want is a Supreme Court precedent. they will let this one go so they can challenge another day.
the Rs picked this court and this judge because they believed of all their choices in the state, he was the most likely to favor them. and if he did favor them, we see how weak their case truly was. ineptitude does not equal fraud; fraud equals fraud, and there is a huge difference between the three stooges mode of King County and Rovian machinations in Ohio (2004) or Floridia (2000).
more importantly, Rossi and his sore-loser cronies know that if they had lost an appeal in the Supreme Court (and given how thorough the judge was, they knew they were toast), the future was lost. obviously close elections are going to be part of the political scene in Warshington for years to come, and the last thing they want is to be kept out of the courts. since there has been no precedent set by this case, they are free to go to court in Yakima or whatever that place is in the middle of the state up by Canadia and ask a judge there to overturn an election. maybe next time they'll get lucky and find a way to overcome the truth and the facts. that is, after all, a favorite R tactic.
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