by Michael Cooper | Nov 3, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Features, NC Politics, NCGov |
I didn’t vote for Governor McCrory but I rooted for him anyway. As North Carolina came out of recession, counties like mine came out slower than average, and one couldn’t help but root for the man in charge. I knew he was a Republican, but we’re all in this together,...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 19, 2016 | Editor's Blog, NCGov, Politics |
The emails that the governor’s office released to the Charlotte Observer this week show, once again, Pat McCrory’s lack of political skills. While McCrory has been vigorous in his defense of House Bill 2, despite its negative effect on his re-election, emails show...
by Alexander H. Jones | Oct 6, 2016 | NC Politics, NCGOP, NCGov |
The wealthy suburbs of Philadelphia (the Main Line) were once strongly Republican. While urban ethnics went Democrat, Protestants on the outskirts voted for the party of fiscal discipline and cultural stability. Then the GOP went crazy. Appalled by the radical tone of...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 15, 2016 | 2016 Elections, NC Politics, NCGov |
You don’t have to be on the Left to agree that some outcomes are just bad. Wages should not grow at a too-slow rate. Infant mortality should never rise. Rivers shouldn’t be choked with poison, rural hospitals should not shut down, and a booming city shouldn’t lose...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 9, 2016 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGov |
Pat McCrory is starting to flail. It’s not pretty when incumbents realize that they are trailing and time is running out. They start looking for something—anything—to change the dynamic of the race. In the final throes of her loss in 2008, Sen. Elizabeth Dole accused...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 7, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGov |
New York Time’s columnist Paul Krugman worries that Hillary Clinton is going to get “Gored.” In the 2000 election, Al Gore was defeated by innuendo and perceptions rather than facts. Voters believed that he was less than sincere while George Bush was the type of guy...
