Washington democracy inaction

From the "If I had bothered to vote for either of these two knuckleheads, I would have needed to bump off only 41 people to make my vote matter" department:

Margin Now Just 42 Votes in Washington State Race

For the record, the apparent winner, Dino Rossi, is described in the article as a "commercial real estate agent," but I have it on good authority from another grad student who has lived in one of Rossi's buildings that the correct term for the would-be governor-elect is "slumlord."