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: | With 110,799 ballots tabulated so far, decorated law enforcement veteran Susanna Johnson has a solid lead over right wing incumbent Adam Fortney in her bid to become the new top cop in Snohomish County. |
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| Published at: | 10:35 PM on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Election Night |
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| Excerpt: | With less than one week to go until General Election Day 2023, there's mounting evidence that local Republicans and right wing groups are growing concerned that key races aren't going to turn out in their favor, including a key sheriff's race in Washington's third largest county. |
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| Published at: | 10:19 PM on Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Counties |
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| Excerpt: | Barón's dual media endorsements appear to have given him a big advantage in the early vote. He has 47.81%, which is nearly a majority. Reyneveld is in second place, with 30.83%, and Johnson Poppe is in third place with 20.13%. |
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| Published at: | 8:50 PM on Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Counties |
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| Excerpt: | With each paper's set of endorsements now available to scrutinize, our team thought it would be interesting to do a comparison and see where the papers agree and disagree. You might think the papers would be far apart in their choices, and sometimes they were... but not always! |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Wednesday, July 12th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Media & Culture |
| Other Tags: | WA-Cities, WA-Ports, WA-Schools |
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| Excerpt: | 54.43% of the votes tallied and reported out as part of King County's April 2023 Special Election Night drop favor King County Proposition 1, the official name of the crisis care centers levy, which has also been the moniker of other levies in years past, including as recently as last November. 45.57% were opposed. |
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| Published at: | 9:48 PM on Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | Read a transcript of Macklemore's comments in support of the April 2023 King County Proposition 1, delivered at King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay's Hometown Heroes luncheon on March 30th, 2023. |
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| Published at: | 8:23 PM on Monday, April 24th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | The passage of King County Charter Amendment 1 is part of a nationwide success story in these midterms. There's a growing movement in this country favoring even-year elections that had a clean sweep in 2022, with a total of thirteen even-year election measures identified by Ballotpedia all winning approval. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Monday, November 21st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Even-Year Elections |
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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, Research Polling Retrospectives, WA-Exec, WA-Sen |
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| Excerpt: | On November 10th, Leesa Manion declared victory in the 2022 race for King County Prosecuting Attorney, accepting the congratulations of her vanquished opponent, Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell, and pledging to get to work on behalf of the people of the state's largest jurisdiction, home to more than two million people. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 PM on Thursday, November 10th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Counties |
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| Excerpt: | A proposed change to King County's plan of government conceived by NPI that would shift elections for twelve key county positions from odd-numbered to even-years is passing easily in initial returns, |
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| Published at: | 8:46 PM on Tuesday, November 8th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Counties |
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| Excerpt: | In the aggregate, 57% of voters surveyed this week for NPI by Change Research said they had voted for King County Proposition 1 or would be doing so, while 27% said they had voted no or would be doing so. The levy appears headed for passage. |
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| Published at: | 6:28 PM on Friday, November 4th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Conservation, Research Poll Findings |
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| Excerpt: | 32% of a large sample of likely 2022 King County voters surveyed online this week for NPI by Change Research said they had voted or were planning to vote for Leesa Manion, the chief of staff to current Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, while 31% said they had voted or were planning to vote for Jim Ferrell, the Mayor of Federal Way, who is also seeking the office. |
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| Published at: | 1:58 PM on Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings |
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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: | Research Polling Retrospectives |
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