by Thomas Mills | Oct 14, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
As the Senate moves toward confirming Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, we need to remember that Mitch McConnell radically altered the process for choosing Supreme Court justices. In an unprecedented move, he denied Merrick Garland a...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 13, 2020 | 2020 election, Editor's Blog, Polling |
A poll released yesterday indicates that the scandal Republicans hoped would sink Cal Cunningham has had little impact on the race. In fact, Cunningham’s margin over Tillis increased by a few points over the past month. The WRAL/Survey USA poll conducted since the...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 12, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
Thom Tillis is throwing Donald Trump under the bus. He said this weekend, “The best check on a Biden presidency is for Republicans to have a majority in the Senate.” In other words, he’s acknowledging that Trump is likely going to lose. Elect Tillis to protect us from...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 9, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
Twitter certainly has its problems. It’s added to the incivility of our dialogue by allowing anonymous posters to spout vile or demeaning comments, often directed at someone in particular, with no real consequences. It does, though, give us insight into what...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 8, 2020 | 2020 elections, coronavirus, Editor's Blog |
The Rose Garden event was designed to be a brazen rebuke of the president’s critics. It would be a high-profile victory lap to celebrate Trump’s third nomination of a third Supreme Court Justice. The event planners intentionally ignored any effort to social distance....
by Thomas Mills | Oct 7, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
A few days ago, somebody wrote on twitter that the evangelical and pro-life groups have become a mature political force. They see politics as transactional and not personal. They vote for Donald Trump because he will deliver what they want, nothing more nothing less....
