by Thomas Mills | Oct 22, 2023 | Politics
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by Alexander H. Jones | Oct 12, 2023 | Politics |
Between 1984 and 2008, North Carolina Democrats never received more than 42% of the vote in a presidential election. Even when Southerner Bill Clinton nearly won the state in 1992, he garnered exactly that number, and the reason that George H.W. Bush didn’t...
by Paul Stam | Oct 6, 2023 | Politics
Did you know that at least 1,600 Ukrainian refugees have settled in North Carolina since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.[1] The last three days of September Congress passed a 45 day stop gap appropriation with no money for Ukraine. Votes are...
by Alexander H. Jones | Oct 3, 2023 | Politics |
A question I’ve been contemplating lately is whether Mark Robinson will ever become so drenched in unadulterated strangeness that it begins to tarnish his Republican allure. Hate, manifestly, is not disqualifying for North Carolina Republicans. After all, the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 28, 2023 | Politics |
It is a fair assumption that Donald Trump has never driven a pickup truck, gone duck hunting, or glanced through Guns and Ammo. The totems of working-class white manhood are as foreign to his experience as they are to wine-track grandees such as California Governor...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 25, 2023 | Politics |
Senator Phil Berger’s titanic stature in the tiny world of N.C. politics has clearly gone to his head. A whale shark in a backyard pool, he wields his clout with no compunction toward the abuses that have long infuriated critics. Berger sees his rule as eternal,...
