by Thomas Mills | Mar 8, 2018 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
Republicans are trying their best to turn the a scandal of their own aimed at House Speaker Tim Moore. Democrats have a better scandal than Republicans. The accusations that the GOP is leveling at Cooper are convoluted and hard to follow. Apparently, the Cooper...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 6, 2018 | Editor's Blog, North Carolina |
Back when Republicans were in the minority in the General Assembly, they complained loudly about cronyism and corruption among the Democrats in control of the state. And they had a point. Democratic Speaker Jim Black went to prison for buying a vote for House Speaker...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 5, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog, Gun Control |
Monday morning seems a great time to attract the scorn of my friends on the left, so here goes. The gun debate highlights the problems Democrats have winning policy debates and elections. Instead of focusing on the problems and the solutions, they’ve defined it as...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 2, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
Kudos to both parties for filling up the ballot in North Carolina this year. Every legislative race will be contested in November and 12 of 13 Congressional districts have races. I’m glad I didn’t know Democrats didn’t have a challenger in NC-03. I would have hated to...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 12, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
Last week, I wrote that the wave Democrats are expecting might not arrive. I argued that a strong economy, the recent tax cuts and normalization of Trump’s behavior could reduce the wave that seemed so apparent just a few weeks ago. However, evidence keeps building...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 1, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog, Redistricting |
Republicans who keep losing court cases blame judges and the court system instead of looking at the legislation they’re passing. The latest loss came yesterday when a federal judge reinstated primaries for Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases. It wasn’t a complete...
