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An Election for the Ages: Rossi Vs. Gregoire, 2004

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Chasing dreams of a governorship, two viable and sophisticated candidates—Dino Rossi and Christine Gregoire—ran for Washington’s top statewide post on November 2, 2004. The election resulted in an incredulous neck-to-neck split of the vote, routinely triggering a State-mandated recount. Meanwhile, intense public interest, constant media and web coverage, and political party and grassroots arousal caused a super storm within the closest and longest governor’s contest in American history.

Not until seven months later did Washington voters know for certain who would occupy the Governor’s Mansion. After the initial election day count, two subsequent recounts, and contentious court action, the final margin within the seesaw contest used to be a razor-thin 133 votes out of a record 2.8 million votes cast. At one time all through the manual recount, with only one in every of Washington’s 39 counties yet to report in, the candidates stood a breathtaking 8 votes apart.

An Election for the Ages presents a cliff-hanging chronology of this political standoff that gained nationwide attention. It also provides an insider’s take a look at how Secretary of State Sam Reed and his team of workers supervised a heated political battle that reached beyond the Governor’s race to the foundations of democracy itself.

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