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WA: More conservative, and more divided, than you think
In a year when election outcomes shocked many people in the polling industry into self-reflection, Seattle pollster Stuart Elway came
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
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