by Thomas Mills | Dec 20, 2017 | Editor's Blog, North Carolina, Politics |
As I’ve said before, North Carolina Republicans were Trumpists before Trump. They were willing to trash the state’s reputation as a forward thinking, welcoming state in order to pass tax cuts that disproportionally benefited the wealthy while dramatically cutting the...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 15, 2017 | Editor's Blog, North Carolina, Politics |
The Doug Jones victory over Roy Moore gave an added boost to an already motivated Democratic base. It showed that Democrats can actually win in Red States. While they got close in a number of special elections in Republican Congressional districts, they’ve come up...
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 16, 2017 | Editor's Blog, North Carolina |
If Republicans in North Carolina needed more bad news, it comes this morning following a focus group in Wilmington. Twelve people who voted for Trump were asked their opinions of him and other matters of concern. Almost all of the participants said negative things...
