Inslee really needsd to get to work. McKenna is so conservative but pretty good at hiding it.

or washingtonians will be looking at the kinds of legislation that alec is pushing in states with republican governors.
anti-union, anti-women, anti-education, etc.
i'm not ready for washington to join those ranks.

I'm not sure if they'd bother having a special election this close to the primary and general, though.

That, and it would make him look desperate and possibly pathetic. The Washington state 'Pugs probably already have the "carpetbagger" ads in the can in case of just such an eventuality.

It would be better for Dennis to finish out his term(if he was thinking of relocating)then move out to Washington, get some sort of work as a professor or something, then stand in '14.

The idea was, however, that he might do that INSTEAD of standing again in Ohio. Once he committed to running for re-election. the Washington move ceased to be an option...at least for this year.

What he COULD do would be to, say, move to Washington, get a job teaching at Evergreen State or U of W, and then seek office there, in 2014 or 2016.

Interesting side note to this...in the run-up to the 1970 congressional elections, knowing that Hubert Humphrey would challenge him for renomination to his Minnesota U.S. Senate seat, and knowing that the party establishment there would do all they could to put Humphrey in and force him out out of the false belief that it was his fault that Humphrey lost, Eugene McCarthy at least considered moving to either New York or California(in New York, ironically, he'd have been seeking Bobby Kennedy's old Senate seat)...and it was felt that he'd have a good chance of winning a Senate race in either state.

McCarthy, like Kucinich, chose not to do that(however, in McCarthy's case, he simply decided not to seek re-election, a choice that ended up casting McCarthy into the political wilderness, from which he never really escaped).