by John Wynne | May 19, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, NCGov |
The New York Times certainly does like to write about NC politics. Maybe their editors have moved down here, too. Anyway, their most recent story is about Governor McCrory’s somewhat rocky relationship with the GOP legislature here. As John Frank of the N&O...
by John Wynne | May 16, 2014 | Campaigns, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Polling, US Senate |
There are only three people who could conceivably win our state’s U.S. Senate election this November. There’s the incumbent Democrat, Kay Hagan. Her Republican challenger, Speaker Thom Tillis. And then there’s Sean Haugh, the Libertarian. Haugh, 53,...
by John Wynne | May 15, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Democrats, Features, NCGOP |
In the second-largest county in the state, there are dark clouds on the horizon for the GOP. Despite a midterm turnout that should favor Republicans, they’re on track to lose control of the Wake County Board of Commissioners. Republicans right now have four out...
by John Wynne | May 14, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC House Races |
Well, a bizarre incident in a very competitive House race has (sort of) come to an end. The State Ethics Commission has podcast. The problem? Turner had no evidence. None. The Ethics Commission had nothing to go on but Turner’s word, and that just wasn’t...
by John Wynne | May 13, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Poll Analysis, US Senate |
In the wake of Keith Crisco’s untimely death, the world of North Carolina politics needs some levity. Fortunately, PPP has seen fit to provide it in their latest poll on the Senate race, the first since the primary. The poll is garbage. Notably, it has Sean...
by John Wynne | May 12, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Congressional Races, Features, US House
The N&O is out with a long profile on Phil Berger, the Senate pro tem. It’s worth a read. But after the legislature is out of session, we’ll be hearing mostly about his son, Phil Berger Jr., who will be involved in a runoff against pastor Mark Walker...
