Disclaimer — I am a Washington state native and proud constituent of Governor Jay Inslee’s — bravo for his clarity and commitment, and for framing climate change as THE issue that touches everything else. AND — WTF with the Daily Kos democratic candidates’ poll from yesterday, that smugly announced that it wasn’t even including Inslee on the list because he had already failed to qualify on previous popularity polls. I repeat, WTF??? He just officially declared his candidacy on March 1 … perhaps he’s still unknown to many outside of my beautiful state, but he is certainly as qualified as many on the list, not to mention that some names on the list aren’t even official candidates yet. Please, dear fellow progressives, let’s not succumb to the beauty pageant, “whoever gets the most headlines wins” approach to assessing the qualifications and potential of this big field of candidates. That reduces us to the same “know-nothing” response as those other guys we like to sneer about …