Russ Olsen was the one Lacey candidate that you could be interested in, because well, for a Lacey candidate, he was suprisingly good. If he were a Olympia candidate, he would have been down the same line as Rhenda Strub or Craig Ottevelli, but for Lacey, he was pretty left of center.

And, he almost won. Here are the precincts that went for him.

Aside from driving through Lacey on various routes every day, I don't know all that much about Lacey and why certain neighborhoods would have voted the way he did. But, a few thoughts.

1. SE Lacey was Russ country. Pricier homes along the lakes? Are these the neighborhoods less likely to be transient? There are also some brand new neighborhoods down there (not even showing up on Google maps yet), so maybe it was the transient vote.

2. Two old neighborhoods near the mall went for Russ. They're some older neighborhoods by Lacey standards.