Fair enough. Very improbable like you were alluding to but not impossible. Although I really don’t see how the outstanding votes in Seattle’s county (King) can make up the deficit. Unless there are other bigger cities that might be able to help make up the ground (I wouldn’t count on any bigger cities on the eastern side of the state to help with that, though).
I was trying to look around to see if there were other outlets that hadn’t called it yet.
AP already called the race though and said that ‘Yes’ won for the Washington state initiative. They called it about an hour ago.
Fuck. It looks like AP just called the race for I-638 in Washington state, i.e. the anti-trans bill.
Even if it gets overturned by the courts, the voting result is very fucking distressing to me, and speaks to how rampant transphobia is in blue states if they felt comfortable enough to call the race with 1/3 of the ballots outstanding in a deep blue state.
I know some people will harp on how a lot of those who voted yes are profoundly ignorant and couldn’t be assed to do any kind of research and will be horrified when they realize it will affect their own cis daughters (if allowed to see the light of day). And that’s true.
But the way the initiative was presented to voters made it pretty clear that it was a transphobic bill.
Idk I just think it speaks to the “fuck you, I’ve got mine” mentality that many cis-liberals and faux-leftists have.
I’ve never been more convinced that a disturbing number of these people would vote yes on an initiative that gave them free health care and college if the same initiative also promised to institutionalize all trans people.
I do think it’s more likely than not to be challenged in the courts, and for what it’s worth, the Washington state Democratic Party Chair has vowed to do as much.
But I still very much hate the voting result. I’d still hate it even if the initiative was, by some miracle, defeated at the eleventh hour because it’s disgraceful for it to even be that close.