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The just-certified results of a manual recount of ballots show that Democratic hopeful Dave Upthegrove has successfully maintained his slim lead over Republican Sue Kuehl Pederson in the extremely tight race to determine Hilary Franz’s successor as Commissioner of Public Lands, setting up a November general election in which voters will have a choice between a Democrat and a Republican rather…

If you go to the website of any national or international media outlet this morning — The New York Times, Politico, The Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, the BBC, and so on — you’ll see big headlines talking about Donald Trump’s apparent sweep of all of the battleground states. Yes, all seven of them: Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona. Several…

After being held for Republicans for over half a century, the Office of the Secretary of State was regained by Democrats three years ago when State Senator Steve Hobbs was appointed by Governor Jay Inslee to take the place of departing Secretary Kim Wyman, who resigned to take a position with CISA. In 2022, voters elected to retain Hobbs to finish out the remainder of Wyman’s term in a special…

Former U.S. Attorney Nick Brown is well positioned to become Bob Ferguson’s successor as Washington State’s top law enforcement official, the Northwest Progressive Institute’s October 2024 survey of the Washington electorate shows. 46% of 571 likely Washington voters surveyed last week by Public Policy Polling for NPI said they’re voting for Brown, a Democrat, to join the executive department as…

In 2021, United States Representative Denny Heck made the jump from the federal government back to the state government, winning a four-year term to succeed Cyrus Habib as Washington’s Lieutenant Governor. Observers across the political spectrum agree that Heck has excelled in that role. He’s now seeking reelection to another term. NPI’s polling suggests he’ll get it. Close to a majority of…

To coincide with the beginning of this year’s presidential election voting period, Cascade PBS has elected to commission a special survey from pollster Stuart Elway looking at the key races on this year’s statewide ballot. The survey, published today, is remarkable in two respects: (a) it fielded in October, when Elway doesn’t usually do electoral research, and (b) it was a poll of likely voters…

This week, with ballots about to go into the mail to in-state voters, The Stranger released its endorsements for the 2024 general election, the final round of Washington’s two-part general election. Like The Seattle Times, The Stranger issues endorsements for statewide and some federal offices, but it releases them all at once rather than one-by-one on different days as The Seattle Times prefers…

The Washington State Republican Party is limping into the 2024 general election homestretch with very little resources and increasingly grim prospects for its entire statewide ticket, as evidence mounts that the party is failing to put any of the marquee contests on this year’s ballot into play. The press is taking notice, as exemplified by an article that Seattle Times reporter Jim Brunner filed…