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 Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. If you live in Washington state, it’s just about guaranteed that you or someone you know is struggling with the cost of housing. This isn’t … Read more
Three months after Portland’s reform, a new poll from Vancouver BC finds most voters there would support it, too.
Voting safely from home looks like a good option in November—and beyond.
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
Polling snapshot: US voters hungry for solutions they’ve likely never heard of
The US electorate is ready for candidates willing to protect environment
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