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According to an email we got from the Washington State Democrats today, the state's Attorney General, Rob McKenna, laid out a plan for Dino Rossi to beat Christine Gregoire in November for state delegates at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota. In short, according to McKenna, McCain-Palin needs to carry Washington by 10-12 points. "If he fails to carry it by ten or twelve points, Dino doesn't win." Maybe it's scary thoughts like that which convinced the state's Republican party to put out only a "vaguely worded press release" when their booth got trashed at Bumbershoot this weekend.

Thirteen teams turned out for Seattlest trivia last night at the Old Pequliar. Want to see how you'd do? Here are all the questions. We'll post answers later today, along with a list of team standings and anything else interesting we find to say about the event.

We mentioned briefly yesterday that Seattle was on the list of potential sites for the 2008 Republican National Convention and that we have been itching for someone to shout at for a while now. If their convention came to be here in 2008 would it be a WTO type of mess of democracy or would protesters be contained in their pens and ignored by the TV? There's no way of knowing. Still, you have to wonder why exactly the GOP would even consider a liberal outpost like Seattle (or Portland, also on the list, for that matter) believes itself to be. We're within driving distance from the border and Eugene, Oregon. Shouldn't that exclude us from consideration? What are the criteria?

-Liberals think he's guilty of hypocrisy. Conservatives would convict him for being gay. A Federal Court has decided there are no charges to be brought against ex-Spokane mayor Jim West.