by John Wynne | Sep 10, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Congressional Races, Features, NC House Races, NC Senate Races, NCGA, Polling, US Senate
Some of the hottest political races of this cycle are happening in Wake County. Wake just passed 1,000,000 residents, so it’s no surprise that this county is going to be seeing a lot of action, both now and in the future. Both parties are going to be heavily...
by John Wynne | Sep 9, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Debates, Features, Poll Analysis, Polling, US Senate |
Glen Bolger of Public Opinion Strategies (POS) is the official pollster for the Tillis campaign. Yesterday, he released an internal poll which showed the two candidates tied with 43% each and Haugh taking 8% of the vote (the YouGov poll from Sunday showed Haugh taking...
by John Wynne | Sep 9, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, National Politics, US Senate |
“Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He better have a bodyguard.” Jesse Helms said that to a News & Observer reporter back in 1995. Even though North Carolina wasn’t as rabidly anti-Clinton as Helms was, this was never a friendly...
by John Wynne | Sep 8, 2014 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Poll Analysis, Polling, US Senate |
The latest Internet-based poll from YouGov shows Thom Tillis leading Kay Hagan by a point in the U.S. Senate race. It confirms what we already know: the race is extremely tight and in all likelihood we will not know the winner until very late on Election Night,...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 5, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Debates, Editor's Blog, US Senate |
Thom Tillis is a man who can’t get out of his own way. In the debate, he looked more comfortable than Kay Hagan and stuck to his talking points. He should be feeling good. So why did he refer to her as “Kay”? I don’t believe he did it to demean her. I think he...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 4, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US Senate |
As everybody has already said, last night’s debate changed very little. Both candidates did what they needed to do–not screw up–and they pretty much kept to their respective scripts. Tillis tried to wrap Hagan around Obama and Hagan tried to wrap Tillis...
