State Sen. Jackson (R) Strongly Favored for Reelection

by John Wynne | Jun 26, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, NC Senate Races

Senate District 10: Brent Jackson (R) vs. Donald Rains (D) The 10th Senate district is comprised of Sampson, Duplin, and parts of Johnston County (the parts of Johnston being in the eastern part of the county, and therefore having a lot more tobacco fields than...

Kochtopus Going After Hagan on Abortion

by John Wynne | Jun 25, 2014 | Ads, Campaigns, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Social Issues, US Senate, Women's Rights | 3 comments

Uh-oh! Everywhere Kay Hagan goes, she sees the Kochtopus. And we’re about to be seeing even more of this foul creature too, on television. The Susan B. Anthony List just made a $100,000 buy against Kay Hagan, attacking her for her support of “painful,...

Our Legislature: Expanding Voting Rights for the Dead

by John Wynne | Jun 24, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NCGA, Voting Rights | 4 comments

Our conservative legislature has gotten a lot of flack lately for their horribly racist and discriminatory new voting laws, which discriminate against those who don’t have proof that they are who they say they are and for whatever reason don’t feel like...

PPP: McCrory Leads Cooper by a Hair

by John Wynne | Jun 23, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NCGA, NCGov, Polling | 2 comments

Here’s some more stuff from the PPP poll from last week which deserves some commentary. (I sometimes wonder how they’re able to get respondents to sit through their entire survey). They polled on Governor McCrory’s approval rating and on the 2016...

GOP Leads Generic Legislative Ballot

by John Wynne | Jun 19, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Democrats, Features, Moral Monday, NCGA, NCGOP, Poll Analysis, Polling | 6 comments

For well over a year now, we’ve been hearing about how the GOP-controlled legislature here in North Carolina is extremely unpopular. That people are outraged. That Republicans are headed for massive losses in 2014, despite their viciously gerrymandered...

PPP: Haugh Making It a Threesome

by John Wynne | Jun 18, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, National Politics, Poll Analysis, Polling, US Senate | 7 comments

PPP released their latest poll on the U.S. Senate race yesterday. Hagan holds her largest lead since September, before the Obamacare fiasco. Tom Jensen says it’s because the legislature is back in session, which is reasonable, or it could be the flurry of...