Reply #72: I heard that both Rossi and Gregoire were doing that ...

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.. right after the election. It seems to be de rigeur tactics in this age of razor-thin election margins and election hacking.

What Gov. Gary Locke *should* do is hold a press conference with Gregoire (no Repugs) in the governor's office in Olympia right after the 3:30 pm announcement today - to give her governor-elect status the required impression of inevitability. Of course, Gregoire and Locke should then call on Rossi to do the right thing for the state and concede. It will be the only thing for him to do when the WA State Supreme Court rules that the 700+ excluded King Co. ballots be added to the count.

Locke is generally too much of a milquetoast to do something that flamboyant and ballsy, but my understanding is that he's not planning to run for Senator or anything, so he might as well go out while spending his political capital on something useful. It may not be the politically expedient thing to do, but it's the *right* thing to do.