Missing Trump? Democrats seem lost without him, while the local GOP surges back from the dead | The Seattle Times
Seattle pollster Stuart Elway, who has been taking our state s political temperature for decades, noticed something a bit unusual when he was tabulating his latest opinion survey.
It was not long after a Republican had surprisingly won the race for city attorney in Seattle where we hadn t elected someone who swings red for 30 years.
Elway s statewide poll, which he now conducts for news site Crosscut, showed a sudden, sharp increase in voters who were willing, when he called them, to say Yes, I am a Republican.
It s as big of a jump in party ID for one party as we ve seen in the 30 years I ve been doing these surveys, Elway told me.
Republicans could scarcely go lower. As documented in this space repeatedly, the Donald Trump years completely ravaged the party around here.