by John Wynne | Sep 14, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
Richard Burr finally has a challenger. Except it’s not a Democrat. Instead, it’s someone who plans to challenge the incumbent senator from the right – Paul Wright, to be exact. Wright might be a familiar name to voters in the 4th congressional...
by John Wynne | Sep 8, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC House Races, NC Politics, NCGOP |
A couple weeks back I published the 10 House Districts Most Likely to Switch Parties. Although it was difficult to rank the seats (especially without knowing about candidates, open seats, etc.) one of those districts that made the list was HD-35, currently represented...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 4, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog |
The story you are about to read is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Back in the early 1990s, I worked on a hard-fought state legislative campaign. The primary was held in May and Democrats had multiple qualified and well-funded...
by John Wynne | Sep 2, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, NCGA
It’s no secret that the General Assembly wants to move the date of the presidential primary to March 15th in order to avoid getting punished by the Republican National Committee. What many have not planned for is that the legislature might move all primaries to...
by John Wynne | Sep 1, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, NCGov |
While the redistricting wars are going on in the courts, the NC GOP continues to remind people that Roy Cooper was once the ‘redistricting king’, even though he now wants to put a nonpartisan redistricting commission in place. I’m not sure about the...
by John Wynne | Aug 31, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
Just in case you forgot, the Democrats are still looking for a Senate candidate to challenge Richard Burr. In the past month or so, a number of names have popped up: State Rep. Duane Hall, former State Rep. Deborah Ross, and Spring Lake Mayor Chris Rey. Now it looks...
