Power Polls

Avista has been poll-testing out Gavin Cooley and Betsy Wilkerson for mayor — and a whole bunch of natural gas questions

By: Daniel Walters

Outlets: RANGE Media

Published: June 17, 2026

Words: 2,733

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 2 days ago

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Most of you regular folks probably hang up when pollsters interrupt a summer evening with a “short” phone survey that lasts 20 minutes or more. But we political reporters are built different. We sigh, start up our computers, hit record on our digital voice recorders and start reporting.

This is exactly what happened last week, when a pollster called RANGE reporter Daniel Walters’s cell phone to conduct a lengthy phone survey focused on local politics. …

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