by John Wynne | Jan 20, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, NCGA |
The American Conservative Union is out with new scores for various state legislatures around the country. Conservatives should be quite pleased with North Carolina: our State Senate averaged a conservatism score of 71%, and our State House scored 62%. Legislatures in...
by John Wynne | Jan 19, 2016 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, National Politics, Presidential race |
Is Donald J. Trump electable? Most people would say, not just no, but hell no. Senator Lindsey Graham says that the real estate billionaire is “the most unelectable Republican I’ve seen in my lifetime.” Which is why the GOP establishment is in such a...
by John Wynne | Jan 14, 2016 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Congressional Races, Features, National Politics |
Jim Duncan, Republican candidate for Congress in the Second District, is out with his first ad of the campaign. It’s a bio/introductory ad, and in it he makes clear that he’s not a fan of chickens – at least the ones in Congress. It’s a...
by John Wynne | Jan 13, 2016 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, National Politics |
Bernie Sanders has emerged as a real threat – not necessarily to seize the Democratic nomination from establishment frontrunner Hillary Clinton, but certainly to take both the early states of Iowa and New Hampshire. One wonders how his campaign would be doing if...
by John Wynne | Jan 12, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
Deborah Ross is the odds-on favorite to win the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, but her two main opponents aren’t going away without a fight. Chris Rey and Kevin Griffin are both making arguments from electability: she might be a nice person, but Deborah...