Pew’s Stateline: “With their eyes on the 2024 presidential election, state lawmakers around the country are preparing to reshape voting rules in what election experts expect will be another busy legislative season.”
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Kari Lake’s election trial bombshell goes bust
“Something was ‘proved without a shadow of doubt’ in Kari Lake’s election trial, all right. And it should be followed up with sanctions, for bringing sour grapes instead of evidence,” Laurie Roberts writes.
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NPI pollster finds that Ruben Gallego is the strongest candidate for 2024 Arizona U.S. Senate race
A survey conducted by Public Policy Polling shows as the 2024 election cycle begins, renegade Senator Kyrsten Sinema is “broadly unpopular and trails United States Representative Ruben Gallego significantly in a three-way race.”
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Republican operative: “Herschel was like a plane crash into a train wreck that rolled into a dumpster fire”
“You kind of had to watch it squinting through one eye between your fingers,” Dan Lagan told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Mainstream US Jewish groups hint at unease with rise of Israeli far right
Read The Times of Israel’s completed liveblog on the 2022 national elections, a victory for Benjmain Netanyahu and the extreme right.
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A majority of Republican nominees — 299 in all — deny the 2020 election results
“Experts say their dominance in the party poses a threat to the country’s democratic principles and jeopardizes the integrity of future votes,” Amy Gardner reports for The Washington Post.
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The midterm race that has it all
This featured column from The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg on the 3rd District contest between ultra MAGA Republican Joe Kent and Democratic hopeful Marie Gluesenkamp Perez — which cites NPI’s congressional district polling — is a must-read.
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The ‘cost’ of voting in America: A look at where it’s easiest and hardest
Washington and Oregon are by far the easiest states in the country to vote in, a new study featured in The New York Times has found. Meanwhile, voters in New Hampshire and Mississippi “face the highest personal cost in the country in terms of the time and effort required to cast a ballot.”
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Association of Washington Business backs Steve Hobbs for reelection
The Association of Washington Business, the state’s best known business group, has thrown its backing behind Democratic incumbent Steve Hobbs to be retained as Washington’s Secretary of State, it announced today.
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Tiffany Smiley can’t bring herself to say that Joe Biden is our legitimately elected President
Today, during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on State of the Union, Republican Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley refused to admit that President Joe Biden was legitimately selected. She chose instead to engage in false equivalency rhetoric.
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That big red wave? It didn’t reach the shores of Washington State
Read Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat’s first take on the August 2022 Top Two election results, in which he credits NPI for having correctly assessed for months that the available data didn’t support Republicans’ claims that a red tsunami was on its way.
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Anthony Albanese sworn in as thirty-first prime minister of Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia has a new leader: Anthony Albanese. Following Labor’s victory in the 2022 Australian federal election, Albanese has assumed office along with several top ministers. Watch the swearing-in ceremony and the press conference that followed.
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Australian voters deliver strong message on climate, ending conservative government’s 9-year rule
“Australian voters have delivered a sharp rebuke to the center-right government, ending nine years of conservative rule, in favor of the center-left opposition that promised stronger action on climate change,” Hilary Whiteman writes in CNN’s assessment of the 2022 Australian federal election.
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Australia’s right wing Liberals will take a generation to recover from loss, polling expert says
A former Labor strategist Kos Samaras offers up some analysis of the initial results to the Australian Financial Review after Labor’s victory in the 2022 Australian election.
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Building on anti-mask activism, far-right groups pivot from mandates to midterms
“Energized by their fight against government coronavirus restrictions, far-right activists are rallying supporters to engage in politics and show up to vote,” Hannah Allam reports.
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Here is everything that’s happened with Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters
Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a Republican accused of compromising sensitive election machine data, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday. Here’s an explanation of everything that’s happened so far from The Colorado Sun.
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NPI’s polling adds a little spice to Washington’s 2022 U.S. Senate race
NPI’s February 2022 statewide research poll found Democratic Senator Patty Murray with a narrower advantage over Republican Senator Tiffany Smiley than she enjoyed in our 2021 polling, prompting a contest rating downgrade and driving news coverage.
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3 progressive candidates just changed politics in SeaTac — here’s how
“Mohamed Egal, Jake Simpson and Iris Guzmán won their races as three progressive candidates in Seattle were defeated, attracting notice in the big city and calling attention to efforts by political groups to make change throughout South King County,” Seattle Times political reporter Daniel Beekman reports.
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Why ‘moderation’ doesn’t guarantee electoral success for Biden and the Democrats
“The reality is that politics is complex and somewhat unpredictable — with a lot of voters who are regularly changing or just forming views on issues and also changing who they vote for or whether they vote in the first place,” Perry Bacon Jr. writes.
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Will we ever amend the Constitution again?
In this important opinion piece, New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman resurrects some of the writings of the Founders to make the point that they would never have expected the Constitution they drafted in the 1780s to have lasted for over two hundred and thirty years with only twenty-seven changes.
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How Benjamin Netanyahu created the new Israeli government that’s poised to replace him
“He’s now the biggest threat to it reaching the finish line in the confidence vote, but if it crosses the line, Netanyahu could also become its greatest asset in keeping it together for longer than most are now willing to predict,” Haaretz’s Anshel Pfeffer writes.
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