by Thomas Mills | Mar 30, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Gay Marriage, Tax Reform |
If North Carolina wants to see its future, it can look to Kansas and Indiana. The North Carolina Senate is following the trail blazed by Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on taxes and Indiana Governor Mike Pence on discrimination. In Kansas, Brownback engineered massive...
by John Wynne | Feb 26, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Gay Marriage |
SB2 – allowing magistrates to not marry gay couples if they have religious objections – was an example of bipartisanship, both ways. In the State Senate, there was bipartisan support for the bill. There was also bipartisan opposition. It passed, 32-16, but...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 26, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Gay Marriage |
When I was a kid growing up in a small Southern town during the 1960s and 1970s, the Ku Klux Klan occasionally dropped literature in our driveway. The pamphlets almost always had two defining features–demeaning caricatures of African-Americans and prominent...
by Alex DiLalla | Feb 24, 2015 | Gay Marriage, NC Politics |
Alex Hayden DiLalla, a North Carolina native, is National LGBT Caucus Chair of the College Democrats of America and Louis Duke is President of the College Democrats of North Carolina. Today, the North Carolina state senate will meet in committee to discuss North...
by John Wynne | Feb 12, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Gay Marriage, Poll Analysis, Polling |
This statistic came from PPP. The state’s constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions was struck down by the courts in October. On the marriage question, 30% of North Carolinians say its legalization has had a negative impact on their lives;...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 13, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, Gay Marriage, US Senate |
A lot of pundits and political types are wondering how gay marriages in North Carolina will affect the US Senate race. The short answer? They won’t. Like Obamacare, gay marriage has lost its luster for those folks in the middle who swing elections. For the same reason...
