Tag: US-Pres

Posted inCivil Liberties, Elections, Policy Topics

Two out of five Trump backers think rounding up Japanese Americans was a good thing, favor bombing Aladdin’s fictional homeland

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

As if The Dai­ly Show’s recent focus group with Don­ald Trump sup­port­ers was­n’t scary enough, Pub­lic Pol­i­cy Polling (which peri­od­i­cal­ly does pub­lic opin­ion research for NPI) has now pub­lished the results of its lat­est nation­al poll, which finds that Don­ald Trump’s pop­u­lar­i­ty among Repub­li­can vot­ers con­tin­ues to grow, and that many of those vot­ers are […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the second 2016 Democratic Presidential Debate from the great Northwest

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the sec­ond Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle. Sev­er­al NPI staff and board mem­bers will be watch­ing the debate from Can­non Beach and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate as it pro­gress­es. The debate is being broad­cast by CBS and its affil­i­ates. Cour­tesy of CBS, here’s […]

Posted inElections, Party Politics

Here’s what Jeb Bush’s people have to say in private about Marco Rubio

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Now this is enter­tain­ing read­ing. We’re not sure how it hap­pened, but an extreme­ly lengthy, one hun­dred and twelve page pre­sen­ta­tion pre­pared by Jeb Bush’s cam­paign, osten­si­bly for donors and oth­er back­ers, was leaked to U.S. News & World Report. The whole thing has been pub­lished online for any­one to read. Mid­way through the pre­sen­ta­tion are […]

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Flanked by Obama, Joe Biden declares he will not be a candidate for President in 2016

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Vice Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has announced that he will not be a can­di­date for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­na­tion for Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States next year, say­ing that he did not see a path for­ward for a cam­paign after con­sul­ta­tions with his fam­i­ly. Flanked by Pres­i­dent Oba­ma and the Sec­ond Lady, his wife Jill Biden, the […]

Posted inElections

2016 Democratic candidates treat America to a real presidential debate about serious issues

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Well, that was refresh­ing! This evening, at the Wynn Las Vegas resort-casi­no in Nevada’s largest city, five of the six Democ­rats who have declared them­selves to be can­di­dates for Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States met onstage, face-to-face, for the first Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle, which was mod­er­at­ed by CNN’s Ander­son Coop­er. As […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the first 2016 Democratic Presidential Debate from the great Northwest

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the first Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle. NPI staff and board mem­bers are at watch par­ties around the Sound and will be shar­ing their impres­sions of the debate as it pro­gress­es. The debate is being broad­cast by CNN, both on cable and on the Web. […]

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Where to watch tomorrow night’s Democratic presidential debate, the first of the 2016 cycle

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Tomor­row night, most of the cred­i­ble declared Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­dates for Pres­i­dent (with the notable excep­tion of Lar­ry Lessig, who is being exclud­ed) will be gath­ered togeth­er onstage in Las Vegas for the first Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle. CNN is the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty’s media part­ner for this event, and will be tele­vis­ing the […]

Posted inElections, Party Politics

Secretary of State Kim Wyman’s plan to move up date of presidential primary not adopted

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

A pro­pos­al by Repub­li­can Sec­re­tary of State Kim Wyman to move up the date of Wash­ing­ton’s 2016 pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry from its default date of May 24th to March 8th failed to move for­ward today at a mid­day meet­ing of major par­ty and leg­isla­tive cau­cus lead­er­ship due to oppo­si­tion from Democ­rats. Wyman had called a meeting […]

Posted inElections, Party Politics

Massive crowd of 28,000 people shows up to hear Bernie Sanders in Portland

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Less than twen­­ty-four hours after set­ting an atten­dance record with a huge ral­ly in Seat­tle, Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Bernie Sanders has done it again. Every­thing came togeth­er quite nice­ly for Bernie’s vis­it to Port­land, Ore­gon, with an esti­mat­ed 28,000 peo­ple turn­ing out to hear his speech inside and out­side of the Moda Cen­ter in the Rose […]

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This is the best line of attack Susan Hutchison could come up with to use against Bernie?

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

This week­end, pres­i­den­tial pol­i­tics are tak­ing cen­ter stage in the Pacif­ic North­west, thanks to Ver­mont Sen­a­tor Bernie Sanders’ vis­it to Seat­tle and Port­land. Sanders is get­ting a lot of atten­tion and cov­er­age from our local mass media — more so than oth­er pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates have received on the occa­sions of their vis­its. And there’s a […]

Posted inElections

Bernie Sanders live-tweeted the Republican presidential debate and it was fabulous

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Mer­ci­ful­ly, the first Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cam­paign is over. Those of us who watched the event on Fox Noise Chan­nel will nev­er get those two hours back, but thank­ful­ly, on Twit­ter, pro­gres­sives had a fan­tas­tic debate watch­ing com­pan­ion in Ver­mont Sen­a­tor Bernie Sanders, who live-tweet­­ed the debate. Here’s a chronol­o­gy of Bernie’s […]

Posted inElections, Events

Bernie Sanders to visit Pacific Northwest next week; will hold rallies in Seattle and Portland

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Bernie Sanders, wide­ly con­sid­ered to be the most pro­gres­sive of the five Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­dates run­ning to suc­ceed Barack Oba­ma as Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, is bring­ing his peo­­ple-pow­ered cam­paign to the Pacif­ic North­west next week. Orga­niz­ers work­ing for the dynam­ic, inspir­ing Ver­mont sen­a­tor have invit­ed Wash­ing­to­ni­ans and Ore­go­ni­ans who sup­port Bernie’s vision for the […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Netroots Nation organizers respond after presidential town hall disrupted by protest

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Orga­niz­ers for Net­roots Nation this after­noon released a state­ment respond­ing to the events that tran­spired dur­ing this morn­ing’s pres­i­den­tial town hall in Phoenix. For those who weren’t there and weren’t watch­ing the livestream, the town hall was sup­posed to be a civ­il con­ver­sa­tion with for­mer Mary­land Gov­er­nor Mar­tin O’Mal­ley and U.S. Sen­a­tor Bernie Sanders, but […]

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Hillary Clinton makes it official, finally: She’s running for President in 2016

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

End­ing years of spec­u­la­tion, gos­sip, and when is she going to announce talk, for­mer First Lady, Unit­ed States Sen­a­tor, and Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Rod­man Clin­ton declared in a video mes­sage that she will seek the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­na­tion for Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca in 2016. Clin­ton’s video opens with a […]