by Thomas Mills | Aug 28, 2018 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics
North Carolina’s election cycle has been thrown into chaos yet again. The U.S. District Court again found the Congressional districts drawn by the legislature in 2016 unconstitutional. They also suggested that those districts should not be used this year. There’s not...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 27, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog
Prognosticators watching the North Carolina legislative races believe that Democrats’ best hope of overcoming the GOP’s veto proof majority lies with the House. In the Senate, Republicans hold a 35-15 majority. Democrats would need to win six seats to sustain a veto...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 24, 2018 | 2018 elections, North Carolina, Polling
Civitas has another poll out showing the precarious situation facing Republicans in the fall. Their poll of unaffiliated voters shows them breaking heavily for Democrats in November. The poll tries to imply that support for constitutional amendments could mitigate...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 23, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog, News |
Back in 2006, the economy was chugging along at a modest rate. Unemployment was about 4.5% and economic growth was around 3%. Americans said health care and its rising costs were their greatest domestic concern. The war in Iraq had no end in sight despite George Bush...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 20, 2018 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics
GOP Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse leveled a threat at the North Carolina Supreme Court that would make authoritarians the world over proud. He said that that if the court ruled against the GOP in the question of ballot language in this year’s constitutional...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 17, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog
Our maps at PoliticsNC have been updated. (Thanks, Amanda.) It’s time to take a look at the lay of the land in legislative races as we approach the end of August and the beginning of the real campaign season in September. We’ll start with the House. Republicans...
