Hey, look! The number of votes counted in the 43 District’s congressional race add up to a pretty number: 12345.
Jamie Pedersen and Jim Street are still separated by only a couple hundred votes (2784 to 2597, respectively) and Bill Sherman is holding onto the number three spot (2001 votes). Meanwhile, Hugh Foskett has taught us that there are at least 894 Republicans in the district.

That make-a-wish total won’t last forever with mailbags of absentee ballots yet to be counted. I’m not sure how many voters are expected to have participated in this mid-term primary (unopposed Ed Murray got over twenty thousand votes in the 2004 version) and there are lots of theories about which way the late voters will swing; so maybe it’s still a competitive nailbiter of a race.

Watch the numbers for yourself by obsessively reloading the online results courtesy of the Secretary of State [vote.wa.gov]