by Thomas Mills | Apr 22, 2016 | Editor's Blog, National Politics, Presidential race |
North Carolina continues to impress. Our much-debated discrimination bill made it into the GOP presidential contest. Donald Trump came out against HB2 while Ted Cruz came out in support. Trump said that the state should have left it alone. “People go, they use the...
by John Wynne | Apr 4, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, Presidential race |
North Carolina Presidential Race: ?? (D) vs. ?? (R) Throughout 2016 we’re going to be looking at the most competitive statewide and legislative elections in North Carolina. We’re going to start off with a preliminary analysis of the presidential race in...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 28, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, LGBT Rights, NC Politics, Presidential race |
Remember when the GOP was the party of personal responsibility? Not any more. Now, they’re the party of pointing fingers. They’re blaming everybody but themselves for the continuing bad press being heaped on their party. After Republicans passed sweeping legislation...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 23, 2016 | Editor's Blog, National Politics, Presidential race |
Like Bernie Sanders, I believe that our political system is broken and that our economic system is rigged for the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. People who make their money from investments are faring far better than people who make their money from...
by Walt de Vries | Mar 22, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Campaigns, NC Politics, NCGov, Politics, Presidential race |
Three hours after John Davis released his optimistic column on Governor McCrory’s re-election chances, based mostly on the successful passage of the $2 billion bond issue on March 15, I wrote John to let him know that I agreed that he had made a powerful argument in...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 21, 2016 | Campaigns, National Politics, Politics, Presidential race
My first PoliticsNC “predictions” post was published last week. In it, I tried to project how the North Carolina Republican Primary results would look. I placed a particular emphasis on how ideology would interact with geography. Now it’s time for a postmortem. All...
