I read an article saying that four years ago the Republicans started targetting their ads because they realized that Democrats watched more TV than Republicans and they wanted to hit their constituents. Well, congratulations! They have now made many Democrats swear off of watching television altogether. I used to see bumper stickers saying, "Kill your TV" and think of tin-hat conspiracy theorists. Now that the Republicans have their own network (and it's being used as "news" on Clear Channel) it's like how we used to think of Russia with Pravda as the state media.

So, although we've been observing the Gregoire recount, we haven't been watching the news on the Gregoire/Rossi recount, so we don't know the spin -- but so far:

With 17 of Washington's 39 counties reporting results by 5 p.m. Friday, Rossi had posted a net gain of 28 votes.

Of course, those are the rural counties that have reported in. King county isn't expected to be done for a week. Clark County is expected to be done Monday.

The Democratic party is also trying to get some ballots back into the process. There are 15,000 such ballots. This is going before the State Supreme Court. Sam Reed earlier said that he didn't have authority to get county canvassing boards to review those ballots.

The recount is going well. The first day had some bumps as the counters got used to the procedures but the ballot counters have improved. They found a few questionable ballots and some wrong counts. I think the hand recount is very accurate.