by Thomas Mills | Jan 25, 2019 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
We’ve had election fraud in the form of unprecedented gerrymandering that’s left us voting in different Congressional, legislative and even municipal district multiple during the decade since the GOP took power. We’ve had power grabs designed to concentrate power in...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 23, 2019 | 2020 elections
One of my favorite post-election analyses came out yesterday. For years, Democracy North Carolina has been breaking down who voted and who didn’t in the wake of elections. It’s a great service to political nerds like me and this year they’ve included some nifty...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 22, 2019 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics
Yesterday, the North Carolina GOP held a press conference to announce, “You know all that noise we made about election integrity for the past decade? We were just kidding.” Instead, they’re advocating to seat a candidate who knowingly hired a convicted felon with...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 21, 2019 | Editor's Blog
As we honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., today is good time to remember that Congress has failed to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Supreme Court found section 4 of the act to be out of date in 2013 and left it up to Congress to amend...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 18, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
Since he was first elected, polls have shown Sen. Thom Tillis to have low favorability numbers. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s in trouble since his numbers are similar to those Sen. Richard Burr carried throughout 2010 and 2016 when he won re-election, but it does...
