The deep challenges facing North Carolina Democrats

by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 5, 2020 | Politics | 8 comments

Tuesday night’s election brought disappointment to millions of North Carolina Democrats. It was a sickeningly familiar sensation. After a cycle’s worth of hard work and manic fundraising, the Donkey Party fell short yet again. This year marked the fifth...

Amy Coney Barrett gives Democrats a reason to vote like they mean it

by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 29, 2020 | Politics

One month out from the election, Joe Biden and Democrats sit in an advantageous position. Biden has led Donald Trump in the polls for months both nationally and even in North Carolina, a conservative-tilting swing state that previously voted for the president by 3.7%....

Trump called fallen soldiers “losers.” Will NC let it slide?

by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 8, 2020 | Politics

Is North Carolina the nation’s most military-friendly state? Since Mike Easley coined that phrase in the mid-2000’s, it has been a point of pride for most Tar Heels. The state hosts the biggest military base in the world and has a population of 667,000...

The costs of a decade-long assault on government

by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 27, 2020 | Politics

Sometimes political rhetoric can embed itself in the psyche of a nation. Almost 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan changed the country with one simple sentence: “government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem.” Since then, Americans of...

The presidential race will go down to the wire in NC

by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 25, 2020 | Politics

North Carolina arrived on the scene of presidential relevance in 2008. As Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling often observes, the Tar Heel state had the second-closest margin in the country both in that year and four years later, in 2012. Even in 2016, when Donald...