Lose Election, Propose Secession

In Washington State, where Republicans are still refusing to concede defeat in the 2004 Gubernatorial election where Democrat Christine Gregoire beat Republican Dino Rosso by about 129 votes out 2.9 million cast, a State Senator has proposed that the state be divided into two. Over at TAPPED, Mark Leon Goldberg endorses the proposal, with one caveat: Make Washington, D.C. a state as well, so we would have a Republican-dominated, rural state of West Washington as well as a Democrat-dominated, urban state of East Washington. Sounds like a fair trade to me. Anyone?