by Thomas Mills | Feb 6, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Democrats, Editor's Blog, US House
For the past few months, I’ve been writing about the civil war within the Republican Party between the establishment and true believers. Now, we’re seeing a different kind of split play out in the Democratic Party. It’s less about ideology than it is about the...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 5, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, US House |
Hats off to Clay Aiken and his political team. In a few short hours, they took a campaign that could have easily become little more than the butt of late night jokes and made it a contender, at least for the Democratic nomination for Congress in North Carolina’s 2nd...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 5, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US Senate |
Conventional wisdom has it that Mark Harris is Thom Tillis’s chief opponent. However, Greg Brannon keeps making inroads. Yesterday, FreedomWorks, the conservative grassroots operation that helped turn the Tea Party into an organized political force, endorsed the Cary...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 4, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Democrats, Editor's Blog, NC House Races, NC Politics, NC Senate Races, US Senate |
Democrats and their allies need to take a step back and look at their situation. At the state level, they are the minority party with very little influence over legislation. In the upcoming election, the Hagan re-election campaign will likely have as much impact on...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 4, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, Polling, US Senate |
Yesterday, Civitas released a poll that indicates the GOP attacks on Kay Hagan are working. Hagan’s favorability and job performance rating are both upside down. In addition, the percentage of people who say they will definitely vote for someone else is also up....
by Thomas Mills | Feb 3, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US Senate |
No wonder Thom Tillis is avoiding all those forums. While he may be angering his base, he’s avoiding the crazy topics like whether or not to impeach Obama. Tillis understands that taking a stand to impeach the president makes him unelectable in the general election...
