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D’s Want ‘Republican,’ Not ‘GOP’ After Rossi Name

The state Democratic Party this afternoon filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court, asking a judge to force Secretary of State Sam Reed to list gubernatorial challenger Dino Rossi as preferring the "Republican Party," rather than Rossi's currently-listed "GOP Party." Yes, yes, Republicans and the GOP (Grand Old Party) are the same thing. But it turns out that a lot of people apparently don't know that. A June poll by Washington pollster Stuart Elway found that 25 percent of likely voters didn't know that GOP meant Republican. (Of that number, Elway found, 7 percent thought it meant Democratic, and 3 percent thought it was a third party)/Rich Roesler, Eye On Olympia. More here.

Question: Should people be allowed to vote if they don't know that "GOP" and "Republican" are the same thing?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.