13 Replies to "ELECTION 2022: Here's how key races and measures look after King County's second round of results"

• Voter November 9, 2022 (5:48 pm)

  The pre-election polling numbers for the US Senate seat couldn’t have been more wrong. Senator Murray is enjoying a 14% lead when it was reported that Tiffany Smiley had cut the margin to 3% a couple of weeks ago. 

  • Peter November 9, 2022 (9:03 pm)

    Polls have no relevance at all. Pollsters depend on people answering the phone when strangers call, which anyone under about 60 does not do, ever, so polls only reflect the opinions of people 60+ who are generally more conservative than the overall population. Over the last few election cycles we have seen again and again that polls are almost always wildly wrong. 

    • Ron Swanson November 10, 2022 (10:24 am)

      Polling was actually quite accurate this year if you disregard the hacks who are putting their finger on the scale to push an agenda (Trifalgar, etc.)

      The last Elway poll (WA’s most reliable pollster) had Murray winning by 13, so pretty much dead on.

• TJ November 9, 2022 (6:10 pm)

  Not much should be surprising here, although Leesa Manion winning is. King County handles felonies, and all the anger about the ridiculously lenient sentences and bail appears to be only online comment fringes. “Restorative justice” is a slogan that has no real world application. But somehow being lenient on criminals is more important than the people they physically harm or steal from. Along with their economic status now too. Manion is a progressive who will push these agendas further. But at the end of the day the choices were clear and she easily has won so people have spoken. The time of complaining are over for the online commenters 

  • Mike November 10, 2022 (4:57 am)

    This is why it’s up to each individual household to take care of themselves and stop relying on Police, Fire and EMT.  Politicians control the wheelhouse and have a vacuum for taking taxes with zero accountability.  If the majority of people truly vote the way things show they are, obviously they like it going the way it has been.  I personally want things to change, I take measures to help myself and my family the best that I can.  I don’t control the wheelhouse, I can only vote for or against those that do.

  • Derek November 10, 2022 (7:31 am)

    Leesa winning shouldn’t surprise anyone, and progressives dominate Seattle (thankfully too) and 2020 was just a retreat. These sweeps are killing the impoverished and the poor don’t need to be locked up for petty crimes. It doesn’t fix anything.  as Jort said, King County locks up more people than the entire country of Finland and Finland has less crime. Republicans blaming crime on progressives has to stop. It’s fake news.

    • Question Authority November 10, 2022 (9:20 am)

      Why do you expect the victims of petty crime to just consider it a normal occurrence in life’s day to day?  Where do you get the opinion that criminal behavior is ok as long as the economic status of the perpetrators is considered?  Stealing and harming others is not cool, in fact it sucks to be a victim and having others tell you to chill out is ignorant and offensive.  

      • Derek November 10, 2022 (11:37 am)

        What does locking them up do? You just move the new poor faction up to the surface to replace the crime the old one did. Locking up does nothing. 

        The thing that needs to be focused on to stop crime is wealth disparity. Tale as old as time. Personally I do not feel like someone who has to resort to stealing a package should get serious time behind bars as that does not fit the crime. But there may be easier ways to fix these things. One is being more intelligent about your packages (put them in PO Boxes), put a club in your car, secure your possessions better, etc. I am not blaming property owners here for crimes of others, but protecting your stuff better helps. I cannot believe everyone hasn’t gotten a club in their car if they park on the street. It’s absurd.

  • WestSeattleBadTakes November 10, 2022 (2:14 pm)

    The time of complaining are over for the online commenters 

    I love that we have some many comedians here. But seriously, is this a threat or a prediction? It is very difficult to determine which it is due to the incoherentness of the rest of the post.

• Brian Feusagach November 10, 2022 (7:10 am)

  What is really disappointing is that only about 35% of King Co registered voters chose to vote — one-third of registered voters made the decisions for all of us. And I’m not counting those who are eligible to vote but not registered (I don’t have that figure at my fingertips). One can complain about elected officials and their policies/decisions, but there is a difference between “that’s not the policy I voted for” and not participating in the election process at all. No matter what side of the political spectrum a person is on, one can only imagine what a force for change there would be if everyone voted.  It would have elected officials quaking in their shoes. 

  • WSB November 10, 2022 (8:50 pm)

    No, 35 percent was just the share of ballots that had been counted by Wednesday. The turnout so far countywide is up to 62.6%
    https://kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/results/ballot-return-statistics/2022/202211.aspx
    Still not where it could/should be, but not entirely horrible. – TR

  • Scarlett November 11, 2022 (9:20 am)

    It’s even worse than that, Brian.  Having worked a few elections elsewhere, a very substantial number of people turn in only very partially completed ballots.  I doubt it is any different here.  

• Mj November 10, 2022 (9:28 am)

  Derek – Really?  What about the people who have had a personal item stolen or vandalized?  The perps need to be made accountable and made to pay restitution to their victims.  There simply is no excuse for people to steal and vandalize someone else’s property!   

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