Washington is a lot like CA or NY. Once you get out of the liberal shithole cities, it's pretty conservative. Eastern Washington is as conservative as any place I've been. Ditto Orange County, San Diego, and a lot of places upstate NY.
However, just like CA or NY, it's the liberal shitholes that drive the politics for the rest of the state. Yeah, you're gonna elect some real conservatives to the legislature from outside the metro areas, but the sheeple populations of Seattle, Tacoma, Bremerton, Everett and Olympia are going to drown your wee little voice of reason out without even really raising their voices. The Gregoire election to governor illustrates the point quite nicely, and shines a brilliant light on the face that Seattle/King County is on a par with Chicago/Cook County for levels of corruption and blatant vote fraud. The state court system is just as riddled with outright corruption as any other element of the state government.