by John Wynne | Dec 23, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, National Politics, NC Politics, US Senate |
Here’s another fun map, this time of turnout by county for the 2014 general elections in North Carolina. As you can see, there are a few regional patterns but as a whole the colors look pretty random. The five counties with the best turnout: 1. Alleghany...
by John Wynne | Dec 8, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Congressional Races, Features, NCGA, NCGOP, US House |
One of the biggest talking points used by NC Democrats in the aftermath of the 2012 elections was the victories by NC Republicans up and down the ballot were solely due to gerrymandering. Well that talking point is kaput. Last month, the NC GOP clearly won the popular...
by John Wynne | Dec 4, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Demographic Trends, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
The Wake County Board of Elections now has results from November 4th broken down by precinct. These numbers contain early voting totals. With early vote numbers now in, we can finally examine what happened in Wake. Democrats did very, very well there last month. Hagan...
by John Wynne | Dec 2, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Congressional Races, Demographic Trends, Features, National Politics, NC Politics, US House |
This is Part 2 of the review of the congressional results. Part 1 is here. This time we’re going to be looking at the results in Districts 8 through 13. NC-08: Richard Hudson (R) vs. Antonio Blue (D) 2012 result: Hudson +8 2014 result: Hudson +30 Hudson walloped...
by John Wynne | Dec 1, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Congressional Races, Features, NC Politics, US House |
I wasn’t originally planning to do this one because none of the congressional races were particularly exciting affairs, but there are a few interesting things to note. For those who somehow missed what happened, or aren’t political junkies and just...
by John Wynne | Nov 25, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics |
Mike Robinson has conceded to Justice Cheri Beasley in the one Supreme Court race that was still outstanding. The final margin was 0.22%. Although Election Night was pretty good to Republicans in North Carolina, the losses in these Supreme Court races have to hurt....
