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Once a Republican stronghold, then a battleground, today a blue bastion: Washington has undergone a striking political
evolutionA pair of Republican-aligned pollsters reported a neck-and-neck U.S. Senate race in Washington 2022. And FNC host Sean Hannity said memorably: “We want that seat.”
They didn’t get it. Senator Patty Murray was reelected by a 441,000-vote margin.
From the 1960s to the early 1980s, Washington consistently elected Republicans to top statewide offices. Since then, the Evergreen State has elected a succession of Democrats to these top positions. It most recently elected a Republican governor in 1980. Its last Republican senator was elected in 1994, while Ronald Reagan was the last presidential candidate from the party to carry the state.
The state has experienced tectonic political shifts in my lifetime.
https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2024/08/once-a-republican-stronghold-then-a-battleground-today-a-blue-bastion-washington-has-undergone-a-striking-political-evolution.html
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You’ll love it here. But make sure to live west of the Cascades. Eastern Washington is Trump Country. Avoid at all costs.
And I caught the Northwest-appropriate Nirvana reference. 
