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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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.”
Launch“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.
LaunchA 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.”
Launch“You kind of had to watch it squinting through one eye between your fingers,” Dan Lagan told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
LaunchRead The Times of Israel’s completed liveblog on the 2022 national elections, a victory for Benjmain Netanyahu and the extreme right.
Launch“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.
LaunchThis 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.
LaunchWashington 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.”
LaunchThe 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.
LaunchToday, 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.
LaunchRead 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.
LaunchThe 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.
Launch“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.
LaunchA 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.
Launch“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.
LaunchMesa 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.
LaunchNPI’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.
Launch“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.
Launch“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.
LaunchIn 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.
Launch“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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