by Gary Pearce | May 17, 2021 | NC Politics, New Day for NC |
North Carolina Democrats want to change the U.S. Senate math in 2022. But is their problem math or English? In 1990, Harvey Gantt lost the Senate race to Jesse Helms by 100,000 votes. Afterward, a Democratic consultant assured me: “North Carolina’s demographics are...
by Gary Pearce | May 19, 2020 | coronavirus, New Day for NC, Politics
Covid-19 might as well be called Divided-2020. When the pandemic started, optimists thought it might inspire us to come together, the way our parents and grandparents did in the Depression and World War II. But if you watch the news and follow social media, we...
by Gary Pearce | Dec 2, 2019 | New Day for NC |
These are bad times for newspapers. That’s bad news for us. It’s easy to gripe about newspapers – and especially big newspaper chains. Newspapers make mistakes every day. And the big chains have made plenty of mistakes in their day. But we, the readers, have the most...
by Kirk Kovach | Nov 20, 2019 | Campaigns, New Day for NC
The fellow from down east was fed up with his neighbors calling Democrats “socialists.” He fumed, “Some of the people yelling loudest about socialists are the biggest socialists around.” How’s that? “They’re farmers, and they get farm subsidies,...
by Kirk Kovach | Nov 6, 2019 | New Day for NC
The late Senator Kay Hagan’s one term and two campaigns epitomized the volatility of North Carolina’s Senate races. They also showed how our Senate elections rise and fall with national political tides – and how North Carolinians view the offices of Senator and...
by Gary Pearce | Oct 31, 2019 | 2020 elections, New Day for NC
A wave of new and young voters has come ashore in North Carolina – and could reshape politics in the state and nation in 2020 and beyond. Political scientists have long said that millennials – born between 1981 and 1996 – are the biggest and fastest-growing bloc of...
