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PED ‘ban’ could juice legislative oversight

PED ‘ban’ could juice legislative oversight

by Rick Henderson | Feb 26, 2021 | Congressional Races, NCGA, Politics, Republicans | 1 comment

By RICK HENDERSON SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGE Oversight and transparency are two areas the Wall Street Journal calls DBI (Dull But Important) They aren’t as compelling as power grid seizures in Texas or censures of retiring lawmakers, but they’re essential to effective and...
NC08: The most competitive race

NC08: The most competitive race

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...
A Look Back at the Congressional Elections

A Look Back at the Congressional Elections

by Darren Janz | Dec 11, 2018 | 2018 elections, Congressional Races, Features, National Politics, NC Political Geography, NC Politics, North Carolina, Politics, US House, US Senate

This year, Americans elected 35 of the 100 members of the United States Senate and all 435 members of the United States House of Representatives, substantially altering the composition of Congress in what was largely the first national referendum on Donald Trump’s...
McCready fits his district

McCready fits his district

by Thomas Mills | Jul 19, 2017 | Congressional Races, Editor's Blog, US House | 8 comments

If Democrats are going to take back the U.S. House of Representatives, they’re going to have to win districts like NC-09. About half the voters live in Charlotte and its eastern suburbs and the other half live in the rural counties of south-central North Carolina....
Special elections are practice, not bellwethers

Special elections are practice, not bellwethers

by Thomas Mills | Jun 21, 2017 | Congressional Races, Editor's Blog, National Politics, Politics | 28 comments

Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff by four points in the most expensive US House race in history. In a lesser watched special election, Republican Ralph Norman beat Democrat Archie Parnell by only three points. The Georgia race embodied the hopes of...
Fighting a two-front campaign

Fighting a two-front campaign

by Thomas Mills | Jun 5, 2017 | Congressional Races, Editor's Blog, National Politics, Politics | 2 comments

Back in 2014, Democratic strategists decided to make the Koch brothers the target of their campaign. The brothers put hundreds of millions of dollars into Republican campaigns and third-party organizations like Americans for Prosperity to attack Democrats and...
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