by John Wynne | Nov 24, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
People seemed to enjoy the “visualized” post, so here’s one more. This is a map comparing the performance of Hagan 2014 vs. Marshall 2010. As an incumbent with the full support of the national party and tens of millions of dollars on her side, Hagan...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 24, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog |
While Democrats like me are pontificating about why Democrats lost and what they need to do to win in the future, Republicans have their own ideas about what happened. Democrats would be wise to listen. In North Carolina, the GOP says, Democrats made three major...
by John Wynne | Nov 20, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
Below is a map of the change in margin between Obama/Romney 2012 and Hagan/Tillis 2014. The counties in red are where Tillis improved on Romney’s performance. Because Romney won NC, Tillis had a little more room for error than Hagan, who had to make up for...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 19, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, US Senate |
Winston Churchill once said, “History is written by the victors.” So the Thom Tillis campaign team took exception to the narrative that Kay Hagan’s campaign team ran a good race. They’ve gone out of their way to debunk the theory. To paraphrase their candidate, that...
by John Wynne | Nov 17, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC House Races, NC Politics, NCGA |
This is a look back at the results of the North Carolina State House races. The first part is here. House District 46: Waddell (D, incumbent) vs. Jones (R) PoliticsNC rating: Likely Democratic Final result: D+7 Republican Jones ran a good campaign here, criticizing...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 17, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog |
There’s been a bit of gnashing of teeth among North Carolina Democrats over the election results. A number of people bemoaned the make up of the electorate. They seem to believe that a more progressive campaign with a more grassroots feel could have changed who voted,...
