A few days ago Brian Schaffner broke down some pretty deep data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study to figure out that 12 percent of Sen. Bernie Sanders primary voters ended up voting for Donald Trump last November. Most of the attention on this data so far has focussed on three rustbelt states where the…
Month: August 2017
“Olympia’s power elite” is probably boxed in
Steve Salmi has a great rundown of yesterday’s results in local elections over at Green Pages. But I think that his “rather groggy” assessment of how well progressives did in Olympia might be overblown. In fact, what Salmi describes as Olympia’s “power elite” are probably boxed in. Take Position 5 as an example, where you…