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The election will be held on August 4, 2004.
is thatsupposed to be November 4 or does Wash state hold a seprate election in Aug User:Smith03
I added an NPOV tag based on the picutres added to this article. Doesn't the presence of four Gregoire campaign pictures as opposed to one Rossi picture (and one of Bennett give this article the appearance of pro-Gregiore bias? Granted, Rossi did not appeal (which doesn't mean he conceded, it meant he didn't believe he stood a chance @ Washington Supreme Court), but this was a very contested election with the end result being at least dubious. Four Gregiore campaign pictures give the article, in my opinion, a pro-Gregiore bias, regardless of the editiorial content of the article - especially in today's "sound bite" world. Is it really necessary to depict Gregiore's inaguration twice, or Democrat/Gregiore lawyers celebrating their court victory? Equinox137 14:31, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I don't have the correct numbers, but someone might want to take a look at the current vote totals.
Still no such thing in Washington (see especially the Libertarian primary section). Primary voters have to choose the ballot of one of the major parties (in 2004, Democrat, Republican, or Libertarian) or an unaffiliated ballot. -- Lukobe 07:03, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
Seems to me that it's rather POV to have two pages explicitly calling for a revote, and one that did in the past. I thought about linking to a particular SP post about the election, and adding a HorsesAss.org post from a similar time, but that didn't strike me as terribly encyclopedic.-- SarekOfVulcan 23:38, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Why are my contributions citing public documents and admissions by the elections department consistently removed? This is very critical to the debate because it is direct and indisputable evidence of what actually occurred. Stefan has PDFs that are basically photographs of the documents he has. Isn't this important? This isn't original research, it is a verifiable source, and it should be included here. If you think otherwise, please discuss it here. Jgardner 23:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Looking at the link for Michael Nelson, I see that it's got nothing to do with the Libertarian candidate - the article is about a British footballer. Being that this is my first time doing anything with editing wikipedia, I wasn't sure if I should edit it right out, or post this first and wait for someone of a higher authority (e.g. someone who has edited this article a lot!) to approve it...
Either way, I believe the link should be removed. -- Hoborocks 18:52, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
You should never worry about making minor edits like that. :-)
I made the correction, and noted your contribution. -- Coz
Until recently Dino Rossi had been tagged for cleanup since January of 2005. I tried by best to clean it up, but it still is paltry. Considering this article's featured status, shouldn't his article be a little more substantial? I would appreciate help in this from those who know. — Scm83x talk 04:42, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't think that this article makes appropriate NPOV usage of the entities involved. Any instance of "Republicans" should be replaced by "The Republican Party" and any instance of "Democrats" should be replaced by "The Democratic Party". In my opinion, phrasing like "The Republicans did such and such" or "The Democrats did such and such" is too informal to be used, and the more appropriate long form should be used. Opinions? I made changes to the first paragraph before realizing that most of the article had these malapropisms. -- Jeff 03:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
I've never seen wikilinks from the bold part of an article, but in this case I expected to see, up front, some explanation of what a US State Governor is, and what and where Washington State is. I've added links from the first use of these terms after the bold bit, but the way the introduction has been written, these links come quite a few sentences into the article. Ideally, the terms would be linked sooner, IMO, but I can't work out how to tweak the wording to do this. Also, I wanted to link the term gubernatorial to an explanation. The best link on Wikipedia that I could find to explain "gubernatorial" was Governor#Etymology, but again, I can't find a suitable place to put this. Despite the word "gubernatorial" being used in the title, the word is only used twice more in the article, and is not explained at all! For lack of a better place, for now, I've linked the first use of the word "gubernatorial" to the Etymology link I provided above. Maybe a "See also" section should link to Governor#United_States and Governor#Etymology? These were the first questions that I asked on reading this article. I thought this was basic stuff, and was surprised to see such links or explanations missing from a featured article. Carcharoth 09:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
What does that mean, saying they "ran to the store to get milk?" - Litefantastic 13:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
I think that this is a very bad idea to put such a vandal and conspiracy prone article on the front page of Wikipedia. We in Washington State have been listening to the rants and conspiracy theories about our close but legal election for years now and having this article in a high profile and unlocked is going to bring about a whole new wave of vandalism. -- 8bitJake 18:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
What is this statement trying to convey?
It is nice that it has citations, but I still don't follow the logic. I think this is another ecological fallacy, which is ironic. However, the statement that "most of the felon-voters resided in counties won by Rossi" is still useful in the next paragraph because it would be in opposition to the Republican's "proportional reduction" plan (in the argument building up to the ecological fallacy). Or am I just reading this wrong? Burzum 00:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Please explain to me how the following, added as the only edit by N in Seattle ( talk · contribs), is not linkspam:
Thanks. -- Jonel | Speak 13:44, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to change the title to conform to what I see as a naming standard for elections like this. My proposed title is "Washington State Gubernatorial election, 2004". Comments? Chadlupkes 19:42, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
seems like the %ile map is better than the map up top. unlike the presidential election, this isn't winner take all. the %ile map is still flawed, since it doesn't show how many people live in each county, but its better than the other.
Justforasecond 18:43, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
There is an error on the percentile map in regards to Island County. Whidbey Island (the large island in the center of Puget Sound) is colored the same dark blue as the islands in San Juan County, which voted heavily for Gregoire. However, Whidbey Island is in Island County, which voted 53% for Dino Rossi. Horologium 17:29, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
This is one of the more interesting aspects of this election, if you ask me, and it's (a) buried awfully deeply in this article, and (b) there's a sentence inserted in the middle of it all that doesn't make any sense to me whatsover:
This is the sentence that I can't figure out:
Even if you grant that this is true, what does it have to do with the main point: How is it a "counter"?. And why is it inserted immediately before this sentence:
The flow of logic in the paragraph is totally disjointed.
-- Doom 01:21, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
I cannot seem to make any sense out of this sentence:
It seems unlikely that the Republicans expected any advantage from more King County votes, and if they did, why did they sue to have those votes restrained? Also, it would be illogical for each party to expect to increase their candidate's lead when only one candidate had the lead. I am inclined to delete the sentence rather than try to repair it. Can anyone defend it?-- Geometricks 13:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Rossi suing to get the election overturned, and losing 4 votes in the process -- 12.116.162.162 16:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
This article doesn't seem to comply with the featured article criteria any longer, particularly criteria 1c. While this article does have a reference section, 15 inline citations is woefully low and there are large swathes of the article that do not have any references at all. I'm going to start throwing sources in as appropriate and fixing some of the MOS issues, but I could definitely do with some assistance. This article seems to be rather comprehensive in its coverage of the 2004 election, so it would be a shame to have to send it through WP:FARC for something as "minor" as poor sourcing. -- Bobblehead (rants) 23:19, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
the campaign section seems to be awfully slanted toward gregoire, especially in the first part of the section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crd721 ( talk • contribs) 12:06, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
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The election will be held on August 4, 2004.
is thatsupposed to be November 4 or does Wash state hold a seprate election in Aug User:Smith03
I added an NPOV tag based on the picutres added to this article. Doesn't the presence of four Gregoire campaign pictures as opposed to one Rossi picture (and one of Bennett give this article the appearance of pro-Gregiore bias? Granted, Rossi did not appeal (which doesn't mean he conceded, it meant he didn't believe he stood a chance @ Washington Supreme Court), but this was a very contested election with the end result being at least dubious. Four Gregiore campaign pictures give the article, in my opinion, a pro-Gregiore bias, regardless of the editiorial content of the article - especially in today's "sound bite" world. Is it really necessary to depict Gregiore's inaguration twice, or Democrat/Gregiore lawyers celebrating their court victory? Equinox137 14:31, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I don't have the correct numbers, but someone might want to take a look at the current vote totals.
Still no such thing in Washington (see especially the Libertarian primary section). Primary voters have to choose the ballot of one of the major parties (in 2004, Democrat, Republican, or Libertarian) or an unaffiliated ballot. -- Lukobe 07:03, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
Seems to me that it's rather POV to have two pages explicitly calling for a revote, and one that did in the past. I thought about linking to a particular SP post about the election, and adding a HorsesAss.org post from a similar time, but that didn't strike me as terribly encyclopedic.-- SarekOfVulcan 23:38, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Why are my contributions citing public documents and admissions by the elections department consistently removed? This is very critical to the debate because it is direct and indisputable evidence of what actually occurred. Stefan has PDFs that are basically photographs of the documents he has. Isn't this important? This isn't original research, it is a verifiable source, and it should be included here. If you think otherwise, please discuss it here. Jgardner 23:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Looking at the link for Michael Nelson, I see that it's got nothing to do with the Libertarian candidate - the article is about a British footballer. Being that this is my first time doing anything with editing wikipedia, I wasn't sure if I should edit it right out, or post this first and wait for someone of a higher authority (e.g. someone who has edited this article a lot!) to approve it...
Either way, I believe the link should be removed. -- Hoborocks 18:52, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
You should never worry about making minor edits like that. :-)
I made the correction, and noted your contribution. -- Coz
Until recently Dino Rossi had been tagged for cleanup since January of 2005. I tried by best to clean it up, but it still is paltry. Considering this article's featured status, shouldn't his article be a little more substantial? I would appreciate help in this from those who know. — Scm83x talk 04:42, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't think that this article makes appropriate NPOV usage of the entities involved. Any instance of "Republicans" should be replaced by "The Republican Party" and any instance of "Democrats" should be replaced by "The Democratic Party". In my opinion, phrasing like "The Republicans did such and such" or "The Democrats did such and such" is too informal to be used, and the more appropriate long form should be used. Opinions? I made changes to the first paragraph before realizing that most of the article had these malapropisms. -- Jeff 03:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
I've never seen wikilinks from the bold part of an article, but in this case I expected to see, up front, some explanation of what a US State Governor is, and what and where Washington State is. I've added links from the first use of these terms after the bold bit, but the way the introduction has been written, these links come quite a few sentences into the article. Ideally, the terms would be linked sooner, IMO, but I can't work out how to tweak the wording to do this. Also, I wanted to link the term gubernatorial to an explanation. The best link on Wikipedia that I could find to explain "gubernatorial" was Governor#Etymology, but again, I can't find a suitable place to put this. Despite the word "gubernatorial" being used in the title, the word is only used twice more in the article, and is not explained at all! For lack of a better place, for now, I've linked the first use of the word "gubernatorial" to the Etymology link I provided above. Maybe a "See also" section should link to Governor#United_States and Governor#Etymology? These were the first questions that I asked on reading this article. I thought this was basic stuff, and was surprised to see such links or explanations missing from a featured article. Carcharoth 09:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
What does that mean, saying they "ran to the store to get milk?" - Litefantastic 13:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
I think that this is a very bad idea to put such a vandal and conspiracy prone article on the front page of Wikipedia. We in Washington State have been listening to the rants and conspiracy theories about our close but legal election for years now and having this article in a high profile and unlocked is going to bring about a whole new wave of vandalism. -- 8bitJake 18:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
What is this statement trying to convey?
It is nice that it has citations, but I still don't follow the logic. I think this is another ecological fallacy, which is ironic. However, the statement that "most of the felon-voters resided in counties won by Rossi" is still useful in the next paragraph because it would be in opposition to the Republican's "proportional reduction" plan (in the argument building up to the ecological fallacy). Or am I just reading this wrong? Burzum 00:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Please explain to me how the following, added as the only edit by N in Seattle ( talk · contribs), is not linkspam:
Thanks. -- Jonel | Speak 13:44, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to change the title to conform to what I see as a naming standard for elections like this. My proposed title is "Washington State Gubernatorial election, 2004". Comments? Chadlupkes 19:42, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
seems like the %ile map is better than the map up top. unlike the presidential election, this isn't winner take all. the %ile map is still flawed, since it doesn't show how many people live in each county, but its better than the other.
Justforasecond 18:43, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
There is an error on the percentile map in regards to Island County. Whidbey Island (the large island in the center of Puget Sound) is colored the same dark blue as the islands in San Juan County, which voted heavily for Gregoire. However, Whidbey Island is in Island County, which voted 53% for Dino Rossi. Horologium 17:29, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
This is one of the more interesting aspects of this election, if you ask me, and it's (a) buried awfully deeply in this article, and (b) there's a sentence inserted in the middle of it all that doesn't make any sense to me whatsover:
This is the sentence that I can't figure out:
Even if you grant that this is true, what does it have to do with the main point: How is it a "counter"?. And why is it inserted immediately before this sentence:
The flow of logic in the paragraph is totally disjointed.
-- Doom 01:21, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
I cannot seem to make any sense out of this sentence:
It seems unlikely that the Republicans expected any advantage from more King County votes, and if they did, why did they sue to have those votes restrained? Also, it would be illogical for each party to expect to increase their candidate's lead when only one candidate had the lead. I am inclined to delete the sentence rather than try to repair it. Can anyone defend it?-- Geometricks 13:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Rossi suing to get the election overturned, and losing 4 votes in the process -- 12.116.162.162 16:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
This article doesn't seem to comply with the featured article criteria any longer, particularly criteria 1c. While this article does have a reference section, 15 inline citations is woefully low and there are large swathes of the article that do not have any references at all. I'm going to start throwing sources in as appropriate and fixing some of the MOS issues, but I could definitely do with some assistance. This article seems to be rather comprehensive in its coverage of the 2004 election, so it would be a shame to have to send it through WP:FARC for something as "minor" as poor sourcing. -- Bobblehead (rants) 23:19, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
the campaign section seems to be awfully slanted toward gregoire, especially in the first part of the section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crd721 ( talk • contribs) 12:06, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
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