The Democratic effort to flip Washington’s 3rd Congressional District blue has officially taken flight.
Tag: WA-03
U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera-Beutler returns from multi-week maternity leave
Washington State’s congressional delegation is back at full strength now that Jaime Herrera-Beutler has returned to work with her newborn daughter Isana.
Here comes the blue wave: Early Top Two returns suggest a Democratic tsunami in 2018
Washington’s Democratic Party is poised to drastically increase its legislative majorities and has a chance of picking up not one, not two, but three U.S. House seats this autumn, early returns in the state’s August Top Two election suggest.
Ready, set, match! Fall congressional contests taking shape thanks to today’s election
Back in May, more than fifty individuals filed paperwork (either in person, by mail, or electronically) to formally declare their candidacies for United States House of Representatives in one of Washington’s ten congressional districts. By the time the August winnowing election is certified later this month, only twenty will be left, with nearly half of […]
Marko Liias exits congressional sweepstakes; other WA-01 candidates stay in
“[I]t’s often said that democracy is about voters choosing their politicians. But in the redistricting process, it’s politicians choosing their voters. And in many ways, those decisions can be more important than elections in some context.” — Nate Persily, Beekman Professor of Law and Political Science at Columbia University, commenting on the importance of redistricting […]