by James Kotecki | May 13, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Campaigns, NC House, NC House Races, NC Politics, PODCAST, Politics, The North Carolinian |
Brian Turner is running for North Carolina House District 116 in and near Asheville in Buncombe County. Turner claims his opponent, Rep. Tim Moffitt, offered him a job at UNC-TV in exchange for dropping out of the race. Is this the kind of sleazy political scandal I...
by John Wynne | May 8, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Campaigns, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, National Politics, Politics, US Senate |
Hagan = Obama; Can’t Win With Typical Campaign If Republicans want to beat Kay Hagan, they need to do two things: they need to nominate a somewhat decent candidate, and they need to turn Hagan into Obama. Whether Tillis meets the criteria for being a “decent”...
by John Wynne | May 7, 2014 | Campaigns, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, National Politics, Politics
In this post, I’m going to look at a) what happened in these races, b) why it happened, and c) cap it off with how my predictions turned out. U.S. Senate Republican Primary – Everyone has already covered this: early on, Tillis suffered from low name...
by John Wynne | May 5, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Campaigns, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Politics, US House, US Senate |
Since tomorrow is primary day, I thought I would make a few brief predictions. Hopefully, I’ll get them all right, and people will be astonished at my amazing foresight. More likely, though, I’ll get a few of them wrong. Here goes: U.S. Senate – Republican Primary...
by John Wynne | May 2, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Campaigns, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, NCGOP, Politics, Social Media Rankings, US Senate |
It’s a slow-news Friday, so why not take one last look at social media rankings before the May primary? Maybe they can’t tell us who’s going to win next Tuesday, but they might be able to tell us who has the momentum in the final days. As always, the...
by John Wynne | May 1, 2014 | Campaigns, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NCGOP, Polling, US House |
The Republican primary in North Carolina’s 6th congressional district is getting really nasty. Both Berger and VonCannon attacking each other on the airwaves. But the real question is not who is going to place first on May 6th (that person is Berger Jr.), but...
