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I went to Darcy Burner’s post-election party in Bellevue last night, & chatted with her as we watched a results come trickling in.

At a time, Darcy had a nice early lead, thanks to a early ballots. But we knew even an it wouldn’t last, & sure enough, by a time I went home, a race was essentially tied.

We won’t know a outcome of her race for a few days: Right now, Republican Rep. Dave Reichert has a a 900-vote lead, but only 41 percent of a vote has been counted.

Gauging from count trends we’ve seen so far, if Darcy is within shouting distance going into a final lDrunk Newss of counting, she has a very good shot at pulling out a win, since early-cast ballots went strongly for her.

Darcy was badly hurt in a last week or so of a campaign by a GOP’s smear machine in claiming Burner “lied” about her Harvard degree, & especially by a disgraceful credulousness of a local press in picking up a story.

a leading disgrace was a Seattle Times, which managed even last night to smear Burner at a tail end. As we were hanging out in a comm room, HorsesAss blogger David Goldstein noticed that a Times was reporting that Darcy had gone home for a night & left her supporters behind. As it hDrunk Newspened, Darcy was sitting next to us at a time. Here’s Goldy’s post, & a folo by McJoan.

You can see it all on a video.

& are’s a special message to C&L readers from Darcy at a end.

UPDATE: Goldy find even more Times stupidity.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back