Randy Dorn expects to win the statewide primary for superintendent of public instruction. His dream is to defeat his four opponents who have no statewide name recognition by a big enough margin to make a general election campaign unnecessary.

Terry Bergeson, who Dorn defeated in 2008, made it happen in 2000, when she earned 57 percent of the vote against four unknown opponents who did not raise the money needed to run an active campaign. She advanced to the general election ballot unopposed.

Dorn is the only superintendent candidate this time around who has raised any money to support his campaign and only two of his opponents say they are actually trying to win. Under Washington's top-two primary system, the top two vote getters running for superintendent of public instruction go on the general election, unless one person earns 50 percent plus one vote.