good news in WA state

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Washington had its primary today, and you guys, there is a ton of good news coming out of it. Dems have greater than 50% combined percentage in two House races, and are at >48% in a third. So that's obviously the big news.

However, stuff is coming up awesome downballot as well. Journalist Melissa Santos's twitter has a bunch of nitty-gritty numbers, for the curious. Here are the big highlights.

https://twitter.com/MelissaSantos1/status/1027066575742939136
Went through all the results and did a rough tally. In WA state House, I am counting 15 (maybe 16, it's late) GOP-held seats where Democrats are leading right now. A good dozen or so of those have GOP incumbents trailing Democratic challengers, i.e. not open seats #waleg #opengov

https://twitter.com/MelissaSantos1/status/1027067023824543745
There are 4 state senate seats that are currently held by Republicans that I count in jeopardy: the 26th District in Gig Harbor area; Doug Ericksen's seat in 42nd Leg. Dist.; Mark Miloscia in the 30th district; and Jeff Holy (Mike Baumgartner's old seat) in the 6th #waleg #waelex

Washington state currently holds the Senate with a majority of 1 seat and the House with 2 seats. In the short 2017 legislative session, after winning that Senate seat and a Dem trifecta, the Dems enacted a bunch of good legislation but were stymied on a bunch more because of the slim majorities. If the Dems can retain their current seats and pick up just half the seats in the above tweets, it would make a world of difference.

EDIT: and as soon as I posted, the Seattle Times posted a whole article on the topic.