The usual battle between Port Townsend and Sequim is about to get more intense with this contest. Sequim with its more-or-less 50:50 red/blue politics and PT with its deep deep blue have had this sense of competition for a long time. I remember getting a real ear full of it back in 2005 when we were considering both towns as our new home.

In the end, PT's sense of self-importance and nose in the air and depreciation of Sequim lifestyles (I won't repeat the claims) drove me to buy a place with a water view near Sequim. Plus the weather was better in Sequim and the paper mill in PT made me sick whenever I drove by when the wind was from the east.

I like places where politics is in the middle and swings back and forth a little across the red/blue divide. That's the real America. 

So... I voted for Sequim then, and I will again now.