I dropped the library copy of “Building Ghost” by Jim Burlingame into my nine year old son’s lap, hoping he’d hold onto it as we pulled away from the library. He immediately started flipping through it as I explained it was a book about a part of Olympia’s history. Specifically, it was a book with…
Month: April 2017
Washington had a surge of Independent voters. What does that mean?
Here is the last 10 years of Survey USA statewide poll results charted out (background data), focussing only on how the respondents identified their partisan affiliation. Basically, following the trendlines, both the Republican and Democratic parties have lost marketshare and three times since 2006 there have been more identified independents than anything else. Also, in…