----If the situation were reversed what would his answer be to a similar request from her. Be honest now.----
Gregoire did not win both the initial count AND the machine recount. Rossi did not eke out a win on the THIRD count by discovering a whole bunch of new, unsecured ballots in a closet somewhere, in a Republican stronghold in which there were more votes cast than there are registered voters, nor did the election shift to him via a count conducted in such a Republican county under a different standard than every other county in the state; indeed, under a standard that was changed in the middle of recounting.
There is no equivalence here.
-Dan