by Thomas Mills | Jan 27, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
The attacks ads against Thom Tillis should be brutal. And they probably should have started by now. I hope the national Democrats are up for this cycle. Not in my lifetime has North Carolina had a US Senator who had so few convictions and stood for so little. He...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 21, 2020 | 2020 elections, Ads |
On Sunday, the New York Times endorsed both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for president. Or at least to become the Democratic nominee. The endorsement comes at a time when Warren is trying to settle a high profile dispute with Bernie Sanders and Klobuchar is...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 13, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
Nothing highlights the importance of North Carolina in national politics like the massive presence of the Bloomberg presidential campaign in the state. Bloomberg himself has been here twice since he launched his campaign just two months ago. More telling, though, is...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 10, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
It looks like billionaire presidential candidate Tom Steyer is heading to North Carolina this weekend. Steyer is going to North Carolina Central University to talk about his plan for HBCUs. He’s going to McDougal Terrace in Durham, the public housing complex that had...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 6, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
I suspect that at some point, Thom Tillis had a modicum of self-respect. I also suspect that those days are long forgotten. Today, he debases himself regularly trying to stay in the good graces of the con man in the White House. This weekend, he tweeted, “Eric...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 3, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
In a post I wrote last week, I said that I didn’t think Pete Buttigieg could win North Carolina because the state isn’t ready to elect a gay man president. I should have said more. I don’t believe Buttigieg can win North Carolina and I don’t believe he will be the...
