The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | This retrospective looks at NPI's 2021-2022 research and explains why, in January of 2022, we assessed that the 2022 midterms could be more like 2018 than 2010 or 2014. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, January 28th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Meta |
| Tags: | Research Polling Retrospectives |
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| Excerpt: | "Not for the first time, a warped understanding of the contours of a national election had come to dominate the views of political operatives, donors, journalists and, in some cases, the candidates themselves," the story penned by the trio of Jim Rutenberg, Ken Bensinger, and Steve Eder acknowledged. |
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| Published at: | 1:15 PM on Saturday, December 31st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Media & Culture |
| Other Tags: | Media Criticism, WA-Sen |
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| Excerpt: | In this retrospective, NPI's founder and executive director assesses what our 2022 electoral poll findings were able to tell us about state and county-level races on the midterms ballot. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Friday, November 18th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Even-Year Elections, WA-Counties, WA-Exec, WA-Sen |
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| Excerpt: | Asked about our finding during an appearance on Jason Rantz's right wing talk show this week, Ferrell inexplicably went on the attack, falsely denouncing NPI's research as "a push poll" and declaring himself the victim of unfair practices. |
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| Published at: | 4:53 PM on Friday, August 12th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Counties |
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| Excerpt: | In this retrospective, NPI's founder and executive director assesses what our October 2021 poll findings were able to tell us about the November general election in the Emerald City. |
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| Published at: | 9:04 PM on Friday, November 12th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Research Polling Retrospectives |
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| Excerpt: | In this Q&A, NPI founder Andrew Villeneuve and Change Research Senior Survey Data Analyst Ben Greenfield talk about best practices for interpreting poll data, like the surveys of Seattle that Change fielded for NPI this year. |
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| Published at: | 3:43 PM on Friday, October 22nd, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Announcements |
| Tags: | Research Polling Retrospectives |
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| Excerpt: | In this retrospective, NPI's founder and executive director assesses what our July 2021 poll findings were able to tell us about the August 2021 Top Two election in the Emerald City. |
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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Friday, August 13th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Cities |
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| Excerpt: | None of Washington State's 2020 statewide races are in doubt as of the third day of counting and tabulating. The winners, without exception, are what NPI's research suggested they would be. |
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| Published at: | 1:04 PM on Friday, November 6th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot, WA-Exec, WA-Gov |
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