Political Science Department
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| Anacortes hires a football coach | Anacortes has turned to a home-grown product to coach its football team. Dick Freier, Anacortes class of 1995, has been named the school’s new coach. “He’s been coaching for over 20 years,” Anacortes athletic director Erik Titus said. “He’s held a lot of different positions. He… |
2016-06-01 | |
| Vancouver millennials inspired to run for office | A white-haired politician who came of age during the civil rights movement and was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War has inspired a handful of Southwest Washington millennials to try to change today’s political landscape. Bernie Sanders has “catalyzed a movement,” said… |
2016-05-31 | |
| Trump, Clinton win Washington’s presidential primary | Todd Donovan, a professor of political science at Western Washington University, said voters seemed to take a keen interest in Washington’s primary this year, despite that it won’t have much influence on the presidential race. He said part of that interest may be the effect of outsider… |
2016-05-25 | |
| Washington Republicans gather for state convention with more than Trump on their minds | With Donald Trump emerging as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a little of the drama has been removed from the state GOP convention that opened Wednesday in Pasco. But important issues remain, such as selecting the state's 44 presidential delegates and getting more… |
2016-05-19 | |
| Debating the Democratic Party's superdelegates and their role in 2016 | "Rigged!" shouts MSNBC's Joe Scarborough. "Rigged," declares a New York Post headline. "Disenfranchised," blasts Donald Trump. Some folks on the left and right are heaping scorn on the presidential primary systems. For Democrats, Saturday's… |
2016-04-13 | |
| Bemoaning Political Attacks Won't Fix the Problem | Almost everyone bemoans the attacks and finger pointing that have become an inevitable part of virtually every political campaign. Candidates who agree on little else claim to share this frustration. Bernie Sanders has emphasized that he’s “never run a negative ad in his life,” and Ted Cruz has… |
2016-04-07 | |
| Democrats in Washington to make their pick for president at Saturday caucuses | For Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders, Washington state is a prize he can’t afford to lose. The Vermont senator trails Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by a wide margin in the battle for the party’s nomination. But the Sanders campaign hopes a strong showing at… |
2016-03-23 | |
| Snohomish County Council choice dividing Democrats | A partisan appointment to the Snohomish County Council is shaping up as a clash of personalities — and once again creating divisions within the Democratic Party. |
2016-02-22 | |
| Lecture to discuss similarities between black, Palestinian struggles for human rights | 2016-02-05 | ||
| Lawmakers target ‘sanitizing’ of college education | State Rep. Matt Manweller keeps finding new anecdotes to add to a Microsoft Word document he’s titled, “Academic Horror Stories.” |
2016-02-04 |