by Thomas Mills | Jun 8, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
Democrats should resist the urge to make opposition to the voter ID amendment that’s speeding through the legislature a centerpiece of their fall campaign. If it’s on the ballot in November, it will pass by large margins. A loud and high profile campaign opposing it...
by Thomas Mills | May 21, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
In North Carolina, races in the 9th and 13th Congressional districts have gotten most of the attention. Several prognosticators have called NC-09 a toss-up after Republican incumbent Robert Pittenger lost his primary to Mark Harris. Harris starts the race more than a...
by Thomas Mills | May 16, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog, Education |
Democrats have the right message on education and they need to stick with it. North Carolina is 37th in teacher pay and 39thin per pupil spending. Republicans in Raleigh let our public schools down, denying them text books, supplies and support staff. Instead, they’ve...
by Thomas Mills | May 15, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog, Education |
The rally in Raleigh tomorrow may be a preview to the general election campaign this fall. Both sides are trying to shape public perception of the protest and score political points. And both sides have dramatically different interpretations of the event. Republicans...
by Thomas Mills | May 9, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
Primaries are over in North Carolina and the race that gets national attention is the Republican primary in NC-09 where Mark Harris upset incumbent Robert Pittenger in a rematch from 2016. Pittenger is the first Republican Congressional incumbent of the year to lose...
by Thomas Mills | May 8, 2018 | 2018 elections, NC Politics, Politics |
Full disclosure: The author works for the Ken Romley Campaign. What happened to NC-02? It seems to have fallen off the radar screen. When the 2018 election cycle began back in 2017, political analysts saw it as one of two potential pickups in Congressional races in...
