by Thomas Mills | Feb 20, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US Senate |
So far, Thom Tillis is having a pretty good week. Not so much for what he’s done, but for what his opponents have failed to do. Nobody in the GOP primary seems ready to mount much of a challenge except Greg Brannon. And poor Greg Brannon can’t seem to get out of his...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 19, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US House
The sleeper race to watch in North Carolina is one in North Carolina’s Sixth Congressional District. Longtime Congressman Howard Coble is retiring, making it an open seat race. Conventional wisdom says that it’s a Republican seat, but that may not be true for long....
by John Wynne | Feb 18, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, US Senate
Today started out to be a good one for Dr. Greg Brannon. He appeared on the Glenn Beck Show and got rave reviews from the liberty-minded, constitutional crowd. Then WRAL reported that Brannon had failed to pay his property taxes on time. But the biggest blow came with...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 17, 2014 | 2014 Elections, NC Politics, US Senate |
After $8 million in negative ads targeting Kay Hagan, help from Patriot Majority PAC is certainly welcome. Unfortunately, their current ad misses the mark. They are fighting on GOP turf and they’ve ignored the political environment in North Carolina. Patriot Majority...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 14, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGOP, US Senate |
Somebody needs to take Thom Tillis’s twitter account away from him. And if it’s not him tweeting, then somebody else needs to be relieved of it. I’m guessing that the Speaker was snowed in Wednesday and bored. Throughout the day and night, his account was putting out...
by John Wynne | Feb 13, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Poll Analysis, Polling, US Senate
PPP’s latest poll finds that not much has changed: Hagan is still tied or trailing her Republican challengers. Beyond that, it finds that Thom Tillis still hasn’t put much distance between himself and the rest of the Republican field. Let’s take a...
