Ticket splitting. Gregoire is not popular even in her own party. Dino hewed to the middle and tried very hard not to scare moderate Democrats and independents. It worked, otherwise Gregoire would have won in a landslide.
11 posted on 01/07/2005 9:36:18 AM PST by Publius
(The people of a democracy choose the government they want, and they ought to get it good and hard.)