by Thomas Mills | Jun 20, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, Obamacare, US Senate |
Back in April, in an interview with the Associated Press, I said that Democrats need to own Obamacare because they can’t run from it. When I made the statement, Republicans pounced, calling the advice short-sighted and ill-conceived. Obamacare is broken and unpopular,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 19, 2014 | Education, Environment, NC Politics
There are state governments that enact awful right-wing policies but execute them decently. Ours does not make the list. Instead, the Republican Counter-revolutionaries seem to pick the most foolish possible ways to pursue dubious courses of action. North Carolina...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 18, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Education, NC Politics |
Yesterday, my post highlighted the role education has played as a powerful political issue in North Carolina. In particular, I said that the budgets passed by Republicans will be a liability for Thom Tillis. I got quite a bit of push back from my Republican friends....
by John Wynne | Jun 17, 2014 | Campaigns, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Demographic Trends, Features, Race, US Senate |
Once again, the Hagan campaign is trying to make hay out of something stupid Thom Tillis said years ago. Except in this case, it’s not that stupid. In September 2012, Tillis appeared on the Carolina Business Review and was asked for his take on the changing...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 17, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, Education, NC Politics, US Senate |
National pundits are increasingly predicting that Kay Hagan is facing long odds in North Carolina. The most recent prediction comes from Nate Cohn, who apparently has taken over Nate Silver’s prediction business at the New York Times. Cohn believes that Hagan has a...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 16, 2014 | Budget, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
The alignment in Raleigh right now is far less Democrat vs. Republican or conservative vs. liberal than it is senate vs. McCrory and the house. Democrats are so far in the minority, that they have little ability to influence legislation. But the Republicans in the...
