Cantwell's main opposition Mike McGavick is still exploring

In the same month Cantwell gets her first major endorsement Mike McGavick forms his Exploratory Committee.

While McGavick's background looks strong its pretty clear he is in no rush to get into the campaign, even though a college student grabbed the site mikemcgavick.com and put up a parody, including a spoof slogan, "It is time for a man to represent Washington," which looked like a jab at the female incumbent. Then a Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist, not realizing the site was a spoof, took the candidate to task for being insensitive before learning he had been duped. The site has since been sold to McGavick's campaign for an unknown sum. Maybe that 7.3 million salary is too hard to give up.