by PoliticsNC | Jan 26, 2022 | Democrats, Politics |
By: Mac McCorkle and Rachel Salzberg The 2022 election year looks to be a challenging one for North Carolina Democrats. A major part of that challenge stems from what we call their “Countrypolitan” problem. Extremely gerrymandered Republican maps could put Democratic...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 15, 2020 | 2020 election, Congressional Races, Democrats, Editor's Blog, Politics
Full Disclosure: I am working with Pat Timmons-Goodson to launch her campaign. Fuller Disclosure: I couldn’t be more proud to be helping her campaign. When Republicans in the North Carolina legislature redrew Congressional districts last fall, they gave...
by Kirk Kovach | Feb 16, 2019 | 2020 election, Democrats, The Kovach Corner
Politico published an article yesterday outlining how the Democratic Primary will unfold over the next year or so. Back during the primary leading up to Hillary Clinton’s eventual nomination in 2016, a lot of people were uncomfortable with the processes and took...
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 7, 2017 | Democrats, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, Politics |
The race for mayor of Raleigh highlights a division in the Democratic coalition that’s less noted than the split between establishment Democrats and left-leaning populist supporters of Bernie Sanders. In Raleigh, the split is between less affluent African-Americans...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 9, 2017 | Democrats, Editor's Blog |
Well, the results of 35 years of supply side economic are in. The rich have gotten vastly richer and the middle class has gotten the shaft. During the previous 35 years, 1945-80, the distribution of wealth was much more equitable. Workers saw their incomes rise with...
