Washington Solid Holding for Obama with Less Than 10 Days to Go

RCP's Averaging polls reveal a clear win for Sen. Obama in the Evergreen state. The latest projections from the website show the Democrat leading competitor Sen. John McCain by a whopping 16 points.

The increasingly blue state is also likely to reelect its Democrat Governor, Christine Gregoire, over challenger Republican Dino Rossi, with RCP polls showing the incumbent with a roughly 5 point lead over Rossi, who she previously bested in the 2004 election by an extremely thin margin. Washington, it should be said, has not elected a Republican as governor since 1980.

The most undeterminable race in the state may be that in the Senate between incumbent Republican Dave Reichert and challenging Democrat Darcy Burner, which RCP polls still show as a "toss-up." The web site's assessment of the race has this to say:

Ask the average voter in this suburban Seattle district and Rep. Dave Reichert is not a member of Congress, he's still the sheriff. That image has kept the Republican in office in a district Democrats John Kerry and Al Gore won. 2006 nominee Darcy Burner is back and raising more money than she did two years ago, but Reichert is a survivor, and beating him will be difficult.