Well, Can't Cantwell Be Beat?
Washington Republicans are optimistic, for a change.
Fred Barnes
February 27, 2006, Vol. 11, No. 23
Seattle
REPUBLICANS HAVEN'T WON a statewide election in Washington state for a top-tier office (president, Senate, governor) since 1994. President Bush lost the state by five percentage points in 2000, seven in 2004. Over the past 75 years, Republicans have won Senate races in Washington only five times. And three of those victories were achieved by a single person, Slade Gorton, who was defeated for reelection in 2000. "This is a miserable state" for Republicans, Gorton says. And 2006 "isn't a good year."
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