by James Kotecki | Aug 17, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Campaigns, Democrats, North Carolina, PODCAST, Politics, The North Carolinian |
North Carolina’s Supreme Court races are technically non-partisan, but nobody’s fooling anybody: the current court is divided 4-3 in favor of Republicans. Judge Mike Morgan is running against one of the incumbent Republicans and could flip the Supreme Court’s...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 11, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Democrats, NC Politics |
For years, the state Democratic Party was rooted in the flat, sandy soil to Raleigh’s east. The “Eastern North Carolina machine” was the stuff of legend. It won elections, it raised money, it invested in education and occasionally gorged on pork (fiscally and...
by Michael Cooper | Jul 29, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Campaigns, Democrats, DNC 2016, Features |
“There was a time when the church was very powerful,” wrote Martin Luther King, Jr. from inside the Birmingham jail. A time when, “early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed.” “In those days,”...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 29, 2016 | DNC 2016, Editor's Blog
Last night, Hillary Clinton closed the deal. Democrats spent the previous three days setting up her moment and she gave the speech she needed to give. Now, she needs to keep her momentum to win in November. Democrats arrived in Philadelphia in a state chaos. Email...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 28, 2016 | DNC 2016, Editor's Blog |
Yesterday, Democrats had a remarkably good day and Donald Trump had a remarkably bad one. In Philadelphia, speaker after speaker, laid into Trump as an untrustworthy con man unfit to serve as President of the United States. Barack Obama ended the night with a speech...
by Michael Cooper | Jul 28, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Campaigns, Democrats, DNC 2016, Features
Barack Obama never attended Donald Trump’s wedding and had no history with the man until the rise of birtherism. Now Trump runs for the presidency against Obama’s record, claiming America isn’t great. So this election is personal. It’s about...
