Sightline’s communications strategy team looks at the latest polling data and political messaging for best practices, worst practices, and lessons for Northwest policy champions.
This article is part of the series Word on the Street Takeaways A new poll conducted in January 2023 by a bipartisan research team finds overwhelming support among Washington voters for zoning reforms that would deliver more homes, in more shapes and sizes, in cities and towns across the state. Compared with a similar poll … Read more
Slam another nail into the coffin of the notion that it’s politically unthinkable to lift bans on small attached homes. In a Vancouver, BC, poll released last week, a majority of likely voters endorsed citywide sixplex legalization, with 16 percent undecided. Supporters outnumbered opponents by a 21-point margin, far beyond the 4.9 percent margin of … Read more
With 7 in 10 Americans feeling like going to the grocery store is a risky act, it’s no wonder public opinion polls show that around the same number want the option to vote by mail.
With partisanship becoming more venomous every day and midterm campaigns ramping up, it may be shocking to learn that Americans from across the ideological spectrum are actually coming closer on one issue: climate change. As back-to-back storms ravage the East Coast and dire warnings come once again from scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate … Read more
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Americans can easily point to where democracy is failing them. But for most, finding solutions isn’t so obvious. For most Americans, problems that loom largest are gerrymandering, money in politics, and the heightened pitch of partisan bitterness. Matthew Yglesias laid out the case October 16 for how the voting system proportional representation could “save America.” The system, … Read more
Raise your hand if you think talking about climate change is a risky move on the campaign trail in 2018 midterms. Okay, now put your hands down. Recent polling makes climate change look more like a wedge issue than a hot potato—especially for younger and Latino voters. Polling shows that US voters not only understand … Read more
Lawmakers in Oregon are poised to decide on the Oregon Clean Energy Jobs Bill, a move to either fulfill long-held global warming commitments or press pause yet again. Policymakers might get cold feet; the usual corporate stall tactics are rolling in. But what do people in Oregon think? Oregon is a state often divided by … Read more
I won’t surprise anyone by saying that Americans are increasingly polarized. It follows—unfortunately—that people continue to look at the world, and issues of science and other facts, through an increasingly tinted partisan lens. Take climate change. While Americans of all stripes support hurricane aid to victims “even if no other correspondent funding is cut” (74 … Read more
Quite a while back I wrote about how the Environmental Protection Agency should be renamed the Environmental Protection Army, with the idea that the name might prompt people to take its role in protecting American people more seriously—on a par with the way they see (and fund, staff, and empower) the military. Call it what … Read more
Donald Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on global warming science. He has threatened to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord. His views on clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar have mostly been negative. His cabinet picks for top environment and energy posts signal erosion of environmental protections and backing for oil and coal companies over … Read more
