We're trying an experiment to see if the wisdom of the crowd can be tapped to predict the outcome of a few measures and races in the Nov. 6 election.
This is not an opinion poll. It's a predictive survey. We want to know what you think the results will actually be, not what you'd like them to be. Imagine you're betting money on the outcomes. You can return and modify your answers as time passes, if you think the likely outcome has changed in a given race.
Here's the survey. Here's a current results summary. We'll also post an occasional update of the trends here on Crosscut.
Did anyone actually take the dinner train? The "Spirit of Washington Dinner Train," as it was called? I did, once, for a story. It was a more delightful experience than I could have imagined, running on a rail line that provided a new and terrifically lovely view of Lake Washington, en route to Woodinville.
A strange thing happened to religion on its way to extinction. It may turn out that declaring God is Dead may be premature. Very weak, certainly, but not yet a goner.
The most interesting development in the death watch has been the disintegration of the Evangelical Voting Bloc. According to a fascinating article in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, the Christian Conservative movement has become disillusioned both with President Bush and its own political leadership. New leadership is gravitating toward environmental and social justice issues, David D. Kirkpatrick reports in "The Evangelical Crackup."
It's fairly easy to propound better solutions than the roads-and-transit measure about to be voted on. But it's not easy to see how they would be enacted.
5th Avenue Theatre mounts Into the Woods, an intricate reworking of fairy tales, with many a twist. The production has marvelous moments and an excellent cast, but it steers a little too far from the dark side of Sondheim's musical imagination.
We finally know who shot those amazing photos of the Washington ferry plying rough seas near Mukilteo, Wash. – the pics that are bouncing all over the Internet via e-mail. The Kitsap Sun solved the mystery. The photographer was Ross Fotheringham of Everett. He says the photos were distributed without his authorization.
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