July 11, 2008 - 1:22pm

Poll: Gregoire leads Rossi, 49-43

A new Rasmussen poll shows Gov. Chris Gregoire leading her Republican opponent Dino Rossi by six points, slightly below last month's seven point spread. Gregoire received the support of 49 percent of respondents, while Rossi had the backing of 43 percent.

The same poll saw Gregoire with a 56 percent favorability rating compared with 42 percent unfavorable, slightly better than Rossi's 50 percent favorable and 45 percent unfavorable.

Rasmussen also predicted that Gregoire has a 90 percent chance of winning the race based upon its election market.

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Frank Chopp to propose cutting health care for education


Wow.. Apparently Frank was quoted at a recent meeting with the children's alliance saying that he felt that health care was a federal issue not a state mandate and since the State is at risk of being sued for not meeting its obligation he is going to throw the Basic Health Plan out the door this next session.

Thankfully education and health care advocates aren't about to buy into the false dichotomy nor do they believe that investing up front in either health care or education "costs" the state more money.

Clearly when people get seriusly ill they are going to get health care at some point it is just a question of how much we as a community want to pay for it.

Frank has become so inaccesable to the people in his district that he runs the risk of being tossed out this next time around so don't be suprised if you see new alliances forming that byspass him this session.

07/12/08 3:52 am

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