Gregoire Wins?

"And with this hand I did smacketh Rossi!"

In one of the closest elections in US history, it appears Chris Gregoire will be the next Washington State Governor. Does this mean I can exhale?

SEATTLE, Dec. 22 -- It took three statewide counts and a ruling by the Washington State Supreme Court to do it, but Christine Gregoire, the Democratic candidate for governor, has taken a narrow -- and perhaps decisive -- lead in one of the closest statewide elections in U.S. history.

The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that at least 573 previously disqualified absentee ballots -- potentially enough to swing the state's tightest election ever for Gregoire -- can be counted. The votes are from King County, which includes Seattle and is by far the largest and most strongly Democratic county in the state.

Hours after the court ruling, the King County elections office released recount figures showing that -- even without the disputed votes that the state's highest court will now allow counted -- Gregoire had picked up enough votes to give her an 10-vote statewide victory over Republican Dino Rossi.

from The Washington Post