by Thomas Mills | Feb 6, 2018 | Bitzer, Editor's Blog |
Catawba College Political Science professor Michael Bitzer has another good analysis of voter registration trends in North Carolina. This time, he notes that Millennials and Generation Z now make up the largest block of registered voters in the state. That said,...
by Darren Janz | Feb 5, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography |
Nestled between the Piedmont Plateau and the Appalachian Mountains in the Foothills region of North Carolina, Alexander County is your typical small, farm-based county in the western part of the state. With a population of 38,452 as of mid-2017, Alexander County...
by Darren Janz | Feb 1, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography |
This article is the first in a series of profiles analyzing the electoral history and political geography of each of North Carolina’s one hundred counties. An earlier version of this series, created by John Wynne in 2013, is also available on the Politics NC...
by Kirk Kovach | Jan 29, 2018 | Features, NC Politics, The Kovach Corner |
Governor Cooper has been an energizing force for Democratic fundraising during his first year in office, all while keeping his approval rating higher than it was twelve months ago. Governor Cooper is setting the standard for how Democrats in the south can govern both...
by Byron Williams | Jan 27, 2018 | Features, Politics |
With the latest government shutdown, which coincidently came last weekend on President Donald Trump’s first-year anniversary in office, the tally for failing to authorize funding for the federal government now stands at 19. Since the Congressional Budget Act of 1974,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 24, 2018 | Features, Politics |
Toyota followed Mercedes and Volvo on the road past North Carolina. The loss of another plant has not been well received by the #ncpol community. Something close to despair has pervaded the political air since Toyota announced its choice. But we can’t let the...
