by Thomas Mills | Feb 9, 2015 | Democrats, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
Former State Rep. Patsy Keever is the new chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. That’s good news for Democrats. Keever understands politics, having run campaigns for Congress, state legislature and county commission. She knows the activists and the donors....
by Thomas Mills | Feb 2, 2015 | Democrats, Editor's Blog |
In his column this weekend, the News & Observer’s Ned Barnett wrote, “The Democrats have been vanquished, undone by their disorganization and lack of conviction and gerrymandered into irrelevance.” The backdrop to that statement is a race for chair of the...
by John Wynne | Jan 22, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Civil Rights, Democrats, Features, Social Issues |
Patsy Keever, running for chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, kind of stepped in it the other day. The candidates were at a forum, all giving speeches and doing their thing. One of the candidates, Janice Covington Allison, is transgender. Now, one of those...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 22, 2015 | Democrats, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
In 1990, when Art Pope set up the John Locke Foundation, North Carolina’s second Republican governor since Reconstruction was in the middle of his second term. In the state house, a group of rebellious Democrats had engineered a coup by forging an alliance with...
by John Wynne | Jan 21, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Democrats, Features, NC Politics |
UNC President, that is. The man himself gave an interview last night with TWC’s Tim Boyum. When asked if he had any plans to assume the helm of the UNC presidency, Pope said no, but would never “flat rule out an opportunity to serve the public.”...
by John Wynne | Jan 20, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Congressional Races, Democrats, Features, National Politics, US House |
Clay Aiken gave a lengthy interview about his congressional campaign, which he noted was his “first.” The implication is that in a subsequent campaign, Aiken would do better. Maybe he’ll run again, lose, and run again after that, a la Mitt Romney....
