by Thomas Mills | Dec 14, 2017 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
Congressman Mark Walker will be visited by three spirits this Christmas season. The first, the Ghost of Christmas past, will take him back to the time of his birth when America had great ambitions. The country believed in a more egalitarian nation. The bulk of the tax...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 12, 2017 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, North Carolina |
Yesterday, North Carolina House Democrats announced nine candidates vying for legislative seats. They called it Blue Monday and rolled out profiles of the six women and three men who announced their candidacies. Members of legislature promoted them on twitter. The...
by Kirk Kovach | Nov 29, 2017 | 2018 elections, Democrats, Features, NC Politics, Politics, The Kovach Corner
Share This post was originally published November 8, 2017 at Carolina Political Review. Landslide. Wave. Tsunami. All of those phrases colored various interpretations of what happened in Virginia yesterday, but all convey the same sense: Democrats are back, in a big...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 14, 2017 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog, Obamacare, Tax Reform |
The wave that washed Democrats into office in 2006 began in September 2005. George W. Bush’s botched response to Katrina began a year-long series of scandals and missteps that left the GOP on the defensive and lacking a coherent message. Like today, they controlled...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 13, 2017 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
Democrats feel better than they have since the day Trump won a year ago. The results of elections across the country last week prove that Americans still share many of their values and that the country can swing back their way. They’re almost giddy about the prospect...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 8, 2017 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
A tsunami like the one Democrats will need to take back Congress next year hit last night. In Virginia Ralph Northam won his race for governor by nine points, the largest victory margin in 32 years. Democrats also won the Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor...
