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Rob McKenna on election night with his daughters, Madelin, Katie and wife Marilyn. He remains behind Jay Inslee.(AP/Stephen Brashear photo)

No concession from McKenna, but possible ballot challenges

November 8, 2012 @ 9:27 pm (Updated: 10:06 pm - 11/8/12 )

With the latest ballot count showing Jay Inslee's lead over Rob McKenna is about 54,000 votes, a challenge could be ahead from the McKenna camp.

Days after the election, about 2.4 million ballots have been counted with an estimated 606,000 still to process.

McKenna's campaign spokesman says some ballots around the state will be challenged. Charles McCray estimates about 16,000 ballots will need another look, many of them with signatures that appear to be questionable.

The McKenna campaign has attorneys in every county checking on potential ballot issues.

While most political analysts say it's unlikely McKenna will catch up to Inslee, he's not conceding the election. He believes it's possible the remaining ballots will break in his favor.

Inslee remains confident he has won the election and he's preparing a team to take over the Governor's mansion in January.

So far, this race isn't as close as the 2004 contest when only 133 votes separated Chris Gregoire and Dino Rossi. Two recounts and a court challenge later, Gregoire became Washington's 22nd governor.

Sunday night, Gregoire and former Congressman Norm Dicks will be roasted by the Washington News Council as they both retire from office.

By LINDA THOMAS, I'll have a report on the roast of Gregoire and Dicks Monday morning

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  • mnpat wrote...
    I'm a constitutionalist and conservative....
    November 9, 2012 10:05 am
    and had few hopes that any like minded individuals winning many if any of the top elected positions.....but if you want to stay elected or get elected you need to support or start programs we cannot as a nation pay for.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Republicans are losers
    November 9, 2012 12:12 pm
    Loser? When will your Dear Leader cut the deficit? The ObamaDeficit? When will we see 5.4 unemployment numbers? Remember just before re immaculation your Dear Leader promised this! What is the ObamaUnemployment today? What happened to ObamaGate?

    Everything before last Tuesday is still front page news even though your attentions have been diverted. What will your Dear Leader do in the second immaculation that he did not do in the first?

    You Left wing Parrots voted for this and I did not. I don't feel like a loser. You Parrots are!

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  • Stevebo wrote...
    It's just a matter of time.
    November 9, 2012 1:27 pm
    McKenna did not win (and won't... and I voted for him... and yes, I'm a liberal leaning moderate).

    I don't think Inslee will be horrible - but I do hope he can reign in spending better than Gregoire did. We got into the fiscal mess we did, largely due to her poor management of the budget to begin with. I hope Inslee doesn't follow the same path.

    As to many of the other commentors here - it never ceases to amaze me the vitriol and pure childishness that politics brings out in people.

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Stevebo
    November 9, 2012 1:53 pm
    Will Inslee be any better or just another lock step Liberal like Gregiore? We will find out.

    I sadly do not think McKenna will win either.

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  • green wrote...
    Relax!
    November 9, 2012 2:24 pm
    Smoke a bowl. We're allowed to do that now.
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  • notmygov1 wrote...
    Here We Go Again
    November 9, 2012 2:34 pm
    We all know King County is expert at stealing elections HERE WE GO AGAIN. I hope when they dig the tunnel they take the county out in the sound and sink it.
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  • Phil B wrote...
    Yeah
    November 9, 2012 3:41 pm
    lets drag this into court and cost the state even more money, eh Mr "Fiscal Responsibility"?
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  • jstumbo wrote...
    did you have a problem when ..
    November 9, 2012 4:57 pm
    Gregoire had 3 recounts?
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