by Thomas Mills | Dec 31, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
Yesterday, I took a first look at turnout from the 2020 election. What keeps haunting me is the discrepancy between Democratic and Republican turnout. In the past two election cycles, Republicans have outpaced Democrats by more than six percent. Had that gap been...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 30, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
A twitter feed run by a conservative numbers guy is out with an early look at the numbers from the 2020 election. In a year with record turnout, Republicans outpaced Democrats and unaffiliated voters. GOP turnout was a staggering 81%. In contrast, Democrats voted at...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 29, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
Photo by Michael Halminski Former Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight died yesterday after a long illness. Basnight was the longest serving leader of the state senate in North Carolina. He also essentially created the position as it is today and he transformed the...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 23, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
Last night, Donald Trump gave the speech he should have been giving all year. If he had, he would have won. It wasn’t long, but it attacked government spending priorities and called out Congress for short-changing American families and businesses. It was the theme...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 21, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
Back in the early 1980s, when Ronald Reagan was telling us that tax cuts for the wealthy would trickle down to the rest of us and promote broad prosperity, I saw a political cartoon in a left wing magazine that had a crude image of Uncle Sam pissing on a map of the...
