by Thomas Mills | Aug 10, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
Thom Tillis’ legislative legacy may be the death of him yet. Back in 2014 when he was running to unseat incumbent Kay Hagan, the Hagan campaign tried to make the race about education and the GOP cuts to teacher salaries and classrooms. One pundit said that Hagan...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 7, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
This year feels increasingly like 2006. Back then, the Republican Party was fighting off scandals, wars, botched responses to natural disasters, and numerous self-inflicted wounds. This year, the pandemic and the reckoning over race have replaced the wars and natural...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 6, 2020 | 2020 elections, coronavirus, Editor's Blog |
A group called AccountableUS released a poll yesterday that indicates a bubbling economic populism in the state driven by COVID and in contradiction to the GOP approach to the coronavirus. The poll also shows how the GOP is out of step with the rest of the state and...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 5, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
For most of the time I’ve worked in politics, the political environment was pretty much baked-in by Labor Day. In the final two months of a campaign, candidates could fight around the edges, running against the tide, with a tide or battling out a more neutral...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 3, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
Another poll in North Carolina shows Biden leading Trump and Cunningham with a huge lead over Tillis. We’ve seen similar polls since the spring. Conservatives don’t believe them. They cite the 2016 polls that showed Clinton defeating Trump. They believe rural voters...
