McKenna to concede governor's race to Inslee

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8. Seattle's 36th and 43rd Legislative Districts elected Inslee - @joelconnelly @seattlepi -

OFA had one hell of a voter turnout operation in Seattle.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/01/25/mckenna-it-was-seattle-that-elected-inslee/

Two legislative districts, entirely in Seattle, provided the victory margin that elected Gov. Jay Inslee and extended Democrats’ 28-year occupancy of the Washington governor’s office, according to Republican nominee and former Attorney General Rob McKenna.

In figures crunched by McKenna and his campaign chief Randy Pepple, the 36th and 43rd Districts, covering much of northwest and central Seattle, gave Inslee a combined margin of 97,600 votes as he won statewide by 94,000 votes. Seattle had a bigger voter turnout than Republican-leaning parts of the state.

“It’s really not a King County problem, it’s a Seattle problem . . . his wide margin in those two districts,” McKenna said in an interview. Overall, the attorney general received just 21 percent of the vote in Washington’s largest city.