by John Wynne | Feb 18, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Democrats, Features, NC Politics |
Linda Coleman is back. She’s once again going to run for Lieutenant Governor, a race she lost, very narrowly, to Dan Forest back in 2012. Coleman announced her plans today, which means the 2016 election has sort of already started. The timing is interesting. The...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 18, 2015 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
State Senator Jeff Jackson (D-Meck.) won twitter yesterday. Jackson showed up at the General Assembly yesterday while the rest of the state stayed home to avoid icy roads. The first term Senator then set about fixing state government as he saw fit. Using the hashtag...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 17, 2015 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
Before there was the Dana Cope who resigned as director of the State Employees association under a cloud, there was Dana Cope the union organizer and leader with big ideas for labor in the state. He was always a complex character. While he had a long history of labor...
by John Wynne | Feb 17, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, NCGov |
If Democrats manage to oust Pat McCrory in 2016, they’ll be making history. No North Carolina governor has lost a reelection bid in a really, really long time. An analysis of gubernatorial races in all 50 states since 1963 revealed that incumbents in six states...
by John Wynne | Feb 11, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
Did you know that North Carolina is holding a Senate race in 2016? One might forget considering how remarkably quiet the news has been on that front. There’s mixed news for Democrats. Two weeks ago, the Burr campaign raised over $1 million in one night, a sure...
by John Wynne | Feb 9, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, Transportation |
Liberals might be overly optimistic when it comes to high speed rail, but devotion to trains looks downright sensible relative to those who argue for the efficacy of streetcars. Voters despise streetcars; taxpayers have been opposed to them in almost every...
