page_title: Dino Rossi
section_title: 2010 U.S. Senate campaign
hierarchical_section_title: Dino Rossi / Political career / 2010 U.S. Senate campaign
caption_attribution_description: The standard Dino Rossi signs are blue and gold, so I at first thought that the Rossi campaign had run out and had gone with a new design for their new batch of signs. But when I got close to it, I realized that these signs aren't from the Rossi campaign - they're from Freedomworks PAC - which explains the "Take America Back" verbiage. So far, these are the only candidate signs that I've identified as being from an outside group.
context_page_description: Dino John Rossi is an American businessman and politician who served as a member of the Washington State Senate. He is a former Chair of the Washington State Special Olympics.
  Originally from Seattle, Washington, Rossi graduated from Seattle University and later pursued a career in commercial real estate. He ran for Governor of Washington in 2004, losing to Democrat Christine Gregoire by 129 votes in the closest gubernatorial election in the history of the United States. Four years later, in 2008, he unsuccessfully contested the office a second time, losing to Gregoire by more than six points. He was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in 2010, losing to incumbent Senator Patty Murray. This marked Rossi's third straight loss in public elections.
  Rossi returned to the Washington State Senate, being appointed in 2012, and again from 2016 to 2017. He was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives for the eighth congressional district in 2018. Rossi lost that race to Democrat Kim Schrier, his fourth consecutive defeat for public office since 2004.
context_section_description: In early 2010, Washington State Republicans began courting various conservatives to challenge incumbent Senator Patty Murray in a year that was seen by many as a vulnerable year for Democratic candidates. On May 26, 2010, Dino Rossi officially announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate. In the blanket primary, Rossi defeated Tea Party favorite Clint Didier 33.98% - 11.99%. Rossi went on to lose the general Election on November 4, after two days' worth of ballot counting indicated that he would not have enough votes to defeat Sen. Murray. In the final tally Murray received 1,314,930 votes (52.4%) to Rossi's 1,196,164 (47.6%).
  The National Rifle Association spent $414,100 supporting Rossi and opposing Murray in the 2010 senatorial contest.
caption: Rossi campaign sign
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