These were the most popular, widely-read Cascadia Advocate posts of 2022 :: NPI’s Cascadia Advocate

As we bid adieu to 2022 and wel­are available a brand new yr, it’s the per­fect time to look again on the most pop­u­lar Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate posts of 2022.

Right here’s the highest twen­ty most learn posts from the previous three hun­dred and 6­ty-four days, in descend­ing order. Be aware that two have been pub­lished in years pre­ced­ing 2022.

#20 | Steve Hobbs leads crowded field for Secretary of State (WA), with most voters undecided 

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Whereas a sig­nif­i­cant main­i­ty of vot­ers (56%) mentioned they have been not sure, which was unsur­pris­ing con­sid­er­ing the num­ber of choic­es within the ques­tion, Hobbs was the clear chief amongst those that did provide an opin­ion, with 17% say­ing they’d vote for him. No oth­er can­di­date acquired sup­port past 6%.

Pub­lished June third, 2022

#19 | Jaime Herrera Beutler courts Democratic voters as 2022 Top Two election draws near

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The thir­ty-sec­ond tele­vi­sion spot being deployed by six-term Repub­li­can Unit­ed States Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jaime Her­rera Beut­ler echoes themes repeat­ed­ly utilized by Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­dates to identify­gentle well being care prices, a problem which the Democ­rats on this state have owned because the Nineties.

Pub­lished June seventh, 2022

#18 | Move Ahead Washington transportation package gets final legislative approval 

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The pack­age’s rev­enue invoice handed 54–54 within the Home and 29–20 within the Sen­ate, whereas its appro­pri­a­tions invoice handed 57–41 within the Home and 30–19 within the Senate.

Pub­lished March tenth, 2022

#17 | President Joe Biden returning to the PNW for Earth Day, will stop in Portland and Seattle

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This will probably be Biden’s first journey to Wash­ing­ton and Ore­gon as Pres­i­dent. Biden has already been to Ida­ho as Pres­i­dent, cease­ping in Boise for a vis­it as a part of anoth­er journey out west that he took final yr. Biden was most up-to-date­ly in Seat­tle in 2019 dur­ing a pre-pan­dem­ic fundrais­ing swing as a part of his pres­i­den­tial marketing campaign.

Pub­lished April fifteenth, 2022

#16 | Leesa Manion, Jim Ferrell tied in the 2022 contest for King County Prosecuting Attorney

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32% of a giant sam­ple of like­ly 2022 King Coun­ty vot­ers sur­veyed on-line this week for NPI by Change Analysis mentioned they’d vot­ed or have been plan­ning to vote for Leesa Man­ion, the chief of employees to cur­lease Execs­e­minimize­ing Attor­ney Dan Sat­ter­berg, whereas 31% mentioned they’d vot­ed or have been plan­ning to vote for Jim Fer­rell, the Could­or of Fed­er­al Means, who can be search­ing the workplace.

Pub­lished Novem­ber third, 2022

#15 | February 2022 King County school levies are passing, except for one Riverview levy

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Ear­ly Feb­ru­ary 2022 spe­cial elec­tion outcomes are in right here in Wash­ing­ton State’s most pop­u­lous coun­ty, and so they look good for colleges and essen­tial pub­lic ser­vices nearly throughout the board, with solely a cou­ple of exceptions.

Pub­lished Feb­ru­ary eighth, 2022

#14 | Patty Murray’s double digit lead over Tiffany Smiley continues as October voting begins

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Requested about their pref­er­ences on this yr’s Sen­ate race from Octo­ber Nineteenth-Twentieth, 52% of 782 like­ly 2022 Wash­ing­ton State vot­ers mentioned they deliberate to vote for Mur­ray. 42% mentioned they deliberate to vote for Repub­li­can chal­lenger Tiffany Smiley.

Pub­lished Octo­ber twenty first, 2022

#13 | Democratic small business owner Marie Perez to challenge Jaime Herrera Beutler in WA-03

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“For too lengthy, res­i­dents of South­west Wash­ing­ton have been ignored by politi­cians in each par­ties who’re extra inter­est­ed in cater­ing to extremes than assist­ing work­ing peo­ple,” mentioned Perez in a state­ment declar­ing her candidacy.

Pub­lished Feb­ru­ary twenty third, 2022

#12 | Poll Watch: KOMO/Strategies 360 confirms Patty Murray has double digit lead; Hobbs and Anderson tied for Secretary of State

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Wash­ing­ton’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic U.S. Sen­a­tor Pat­ty Mur­ray con­tin­ues to take pleasure in a dou­ble dig­it lead over Repub­li­can chal­lenger Tiffany Smi­ley, whereas Sec­re­tary of State hope­fuls Steve Hobbs and Julie Ander­son are tied at 38% apiece with lower than a month till the midterms, a brand new ballot from Strate­gies 360 and KOMO has discovered.

Pub­lished Octo­ber tenth, 2022

#11 | Leesa Manion, Jim Ferrell tied at outset of King County Prosecuting Attorney contest, but Manion’s bio wins among the undecided

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Ini­tial­ly, 83% of like­ly 2022 vot­ers sur­veyed for the North­west Professional­gres­sive Insti­tute mentioned they weren’t positive who they’d sup­port, with solely 8% again­ing every can­di­date. How­ev­er, Leesa Man­ion jumped out to a lead over Jim Fer­rell after “unsure” vot­ers have been professional­vid­ed bio­graph­i­cal excessive­lights of each.

Pub­lished August 1st, 2022

#10 | Documentary Review: “Saving Capitalism” highlights an important truth about markets

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Learn NPI’s evaluation of for­mer Sec­re­tary of Labor Robert Reich’s new movie about what hap­pened to our econ­o­my, now avail­capable of stream on Netflix.

Pub­lished Decem­ber sixteenth, 2017

#9 | Washington State Senate passes two critically important gun safety bills in evening session

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A pair of maximum­ly impor­tant, a lot want­ed gun protected­ty payments pre­vi­ous­ly permitted by the Home of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives every acquired con­sti­tu­tion­al majori­ties within the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate on March 1st, 2022 and are one step clos­er to becom­ing legal guidelines.

Pub­lished March 1st, 2022

#8 | Extremism Watch: Sinclair’s Jonathan Choe serves up lots of publicity for the Proud Boys

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Choe calls him­self a jour­nal­ist — he even empha­sizes that label as a part of his Twit­ter han­dle — however he not often appears to prac­tice what the Soci­ety of Professional­fes­sion­al Jour­nal­ists defines of their code of ethics as jour­nal­ism. On March Nineteenth, he pret­ty a lot dropped any pre­tense of being a jour­nal­ist and as an alternative selected to behave as a press agent for the Proud Boys dur­ing his after­midday in Olympia.

Pub­lished March Twentieth, 2022

#7 | Poll Watch: Trafalgar tries to bolster Tiffany Smiley’s longshot challenge to Patty Murray

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Sub­jec­tive orga­ni­za­tions are per­fect­ly capa­ble of automotive­ry­ing out objec­tive analysis, however it seems that Trafal­gar­’s purpose right here (giv­en their deci­sion to pub­lish these unsup­port­ready fig­ures) is to bol­ster Smi­ley’s lengthy­shot can­di­da­cy, moderately than mak­ing a cred­i­ble con­tri­bu­tion to the physique of pub­lic opin­ion analysis on this race.

Pub­lished Sep­tem­ber 2nd, 2022

#6 | A close contest in WA-03: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez narrowly trails Joe Kent, NPI poll finds

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Solely three per­cent­age factors sep­a­rat­ed the can­di­dates within the sur­vey’s remaining head-to-head matchup, with Kent gar­ner­ing 47% and Glue­senkamp Perez 44%. 9% usually are not positive. These fig­ures are nearly iden­ti­cal to respons­es to the ini­tial head-to-head ques­tion, during which Kent acquired 48% and Glue­senkamp Perez acquired 44%.

Pub­lished Sep­tem­ber twenty first, 2022

#5 | Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws

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Take just a few moments to learn this excerpt from Dr. Mar­tin Luther King’s Let­ter From Birm­ing­ham Jail.

Pub­lished Jan­u­ary 18th, 2016

#4 | Washington’s once sleepy special election for Secretary of State is now on the media’s radar

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Within the 2022 Prime Two elec­tion, incum­bent Steve Hobbs faces three Repub­li­cans — Kei­th Wag­oner, Mark Milos­cia, and Bob Hag­glu­nd, together with Pierce Coun­ty Audi­tor Julie Ander­son, who’s run­ning as an inde­pen­dent, plus a con­spir­a­cy the­o­rist, Tam­borine Bor­rel­li, an unaf­fil­i­at­ed can­di­date named Kur­tis Engle, and one oth­er Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­date, Mar­quez Tig­gs, who’s run­ning with­out mon­ey or par­ty help.

Pub­lished July thirtieth, 2022

#3 | Senator Patty Murray regains double digit lead over Republican opponent Tiffany Smiley

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51% of 1,039 like­ly 2022 Wash­ing­ton State vot­ers mentioned they’d vote for Mur­ray if the elec­tion have been being held as we speak, whereas 40% mentioned they’d vote for Smi­ley, Mur­ray’s like­ly gen­er­al elec­tion oppo­nent. 8% weren’t positive.

Pub­lished June 2nd, 2022

#2 | Documentary Review: Robert Reich’s “Inequality for All” is an essential film

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Learn NPI’s evaluation of Inequal­i­ty For All, a movie primarily based on the work of professional­gres­sive thought chief and for­mer Sec­re­tary of Labor Robert Reich.

Pub­lished April thirteenth, 2019

#1 | 2022 U.S. Senate race tightens: Patty Murray holds steady as Tiffany Smiley gains ground

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50% of 700 like­ly 2022 vot­ers sur­veyed in mid-Feb­ru­ary 2022 by Pub­lic Pol­i­cy Polling (PPP) for NPI mentioned they’d vote for Mur­ray if the elec­tion have been being held as we speak, whereas 41% mentioned they’d vote for Smi­ley. 9% weren’t positive.

Pub­lished Feb­ru­ary 18th, 2022

Honorable point out

This put up was­n’t one of many twen­ty most-read, however it’s prob­a­bly my favourite:

Why the 2022 midterms in Wash­ing­ton State could look more like 2018 than 2010 or 2014

On this in-depth put up for The Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate, NPI’s founder and exec­u­tive direc­tor dis­cuss­es how Repub­li­cans are work­ing suc­cess­ful­ly to push reporters and ballot­sters to view the midterms on their phrases and cri­tiques Stu­artwork Elway’s latest Wash­ing­ton State polling.

Pub­lished Jan­u­ary twenty eighth, 2022

NPI’s statewide and coun­ty­large elec­toral analysis was very pop­u­lar with learn­ers. Pre­vi­ous­ly pub­lished opinions of Robert Reich doc­u­males­tary movies have been additionally successful, together with our cov­er­age of the con­take a look at within the third Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict between Marie Glue­senkamp Perez and Joe Kent. (Glue­senkamp Perez gained, in what was known as the upset of the yr, however which was fore­shad­owed by cred­i­ble polling).

Thanks to each­one who learn the Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate this yr. See you in 2023!