by Thomas Mills | Jun 29, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
Republican Bob Orr is headlining an event for Congressional candidate Dan McCready along with Democrats Jim Hunt and Charlotte mayor Vi Lyles. The GOP immediately condemned him. Republican Party Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse said he’s “detested within our...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 27, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
Republicans are pushing constitutional amendments in North Carolina that are neither conservative nor liberal. They are authoritarian. GOP leaders believe they can strip power from the governor and are confident that they can maintain control of the General Assembly...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 25, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics
Republicans are in such a rush to rig the electoral process in North Carolina that the people carrying out the laws can’t even keep up. The GOP has made changes to the voting process almost every year since they took power–gerrymandering local government, making...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 22, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog, Poll Analysis, Polling |
Yesterday, Civitas released its monthly poll of North Carolina politics and it’s brutal for Republicans. It may just be an outlier but the numbers suggest a political environment that’s collapsing for the GOP. The issues on people’s minds favor progressives, Donald...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 15, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
The NCGOP is rolling out a cynical plan to boost Republican turnout in November. They’re loading up the ballot with constitutional amendments intended to motivate their base. They’re mostly bad ideas designed to lock in conservative principles that will harm working...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 13, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
The closer we get to November, the more it looks like the election will be a referendum on Donald Trump. Last night in Republican primaries, Trump-type candidates won. In Virginia, Cory Stewart, who lost a primary for governor last year after wrapping himself in the...
