by Thomas Mills | Apr 10, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
High Point University released a poll this week that shows Republicans should probably start to worry a little bit. Donald Trump is unpopular while Roy Cooper is doing well in the minds of voters. It’s way too early to consider the poll a predictor but the trend has...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 9, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
Democrats have a conundrum. Their energy is with younger, educated and more social media savvy activists but their actual voters are older and more moderate. Candidates like Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris excite the base. Candidates like Joe Biden and...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 2, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
It’s early in the election cycle, but Republican must like what they’re seeing right now. Democrats seem hellbent on tearing each other down while the frontrunners for the Democratic nomination are falling all over themselves to see who can pander to the base the...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 1, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics
North Carolina has a long history of revolving US Senate seats. The seat Sen. Thom Tillis holds has flipped every cycle since Jesse Helms gave it up in 2002. The other Senate seat, the one Richard Burr holds, had flipped every cycle since Sam Ervin retired in 1974...
by Kirk Kovach | Mar 11, 2019 | 2020 elections, The Kovach Corner
Governor Cooper is not known for booming rhetoric, and in the same quiet way that he might deliver his speeches he has gone about dramatically shifting the balance of the North Carolina judiciary. Yesterday, Governor Cooper appointed North Carolina Court of Appeals...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 30, 2019 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
I’m no fan of billionaires running our country. I don’t like Donald Trump and I’m not supportive of Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer or anyone else whose net worth reaches ten figures. I don’t think those people have any idea how the rest of us live and I don’t believe...
