The Seattle Times editorial board has printed, on their blog “Ed Cetera”, a short review of third party presidential results in 2008. They point out specific cities, districts, and geographic areas which voted more heavily for certain candidates.
Where are Washington’s third-party voters? Consider the returns from Nov. 4 for the Libertarian, Constitution, Independent (Nader) and Green parties. They got what was left over after Barack Obama and John McCain took 98.13 percent. The leftovers were crumbs only, but they make some interesting patterns.
The independent ticket of Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez—a leftist effort—got the most votes of this group, 29,489 statewide. Of the 49 legislative districts in Washington, Nader’s stronghold was in rural Western Washington—what might be called the organic-apple belt: the 24th district, Olympic Peninsula, including Port Townsend, 895 votes; 40th district, San Juan Islands, 889 votes; 39th district, Cascade foothills in Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish and King counties, 840 votes; and 34th district, Vashon Island and West Seattle, 834 votes. Some of these areas—Vashon, Port Townsend and the San Juans—are among the state’s most liberal outside of Seattle. But the 39th elects Sen. Val Stevens, one of the State Senate’s most conservative Republicans.
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Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed is the greatest Republican in the country for establishing a runoff voting system for non-presidential races. It put the third parties in their places, proving that most of the population doesn’t support them. God bless Sam Reed, God’s representative to the Republican Party. I already have too many opposition voices in the Catholic Trotskyist shadow cabinet, to be posted later, but we will let you know when a position opens.