by John Wynne | Feb 13, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, Poll Analysis, Polling, US Senate
PPP’s latest poll finds that not much has changed: Hagan is still tied or trailing her Republican challengers. Beyond that, it finds that Thom Tillis still hasn’t put much distance between himself and the rest of the Republican field. Let’s take a...
by John Wynne | Feb 11, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, US Senate
The campaign of Dr. Greg Brannon will soon be launching its first ad in the NC Senate race. In the ad, Brannon takes aim at both Speaker Thom Tillis and Senator Kay Hagan, while running as an unabashed Tea Party leader. The ad will likely generate support from very...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 8, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US Senate
Here comes the cavalry. Patriot Majority USA, a Democratic super PAC, announced it’s going spend $500,000 on behalf of Kay Hagan beginning next week. That’s after Republican super PACs, most notably Americans for Prosperity, have spent almost $7 million over the past...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 6, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US Senate |
CORRECTION: This piece originally said that Tillis was not recognized as a Defender of Liberty by the American Conservative Union. In fact, he was. Conservative Republicans and their allies are continuing to punish North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis. Tillis has...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 5, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US Senate |
Conventional wisdom has it that Mark Harris is Thom Tillis’s chief opponent. However, Greg Brannon keeps making inroads. Yesterday, FreedomWorks, the conservative grassroots operation that helped turn the Tea Party into an organized political force, endorsed the Cary...
by Thomas Mills | Feb 4, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Democrats, Editor's Blog, NC House Races, NC Politics, NC Senate Races, US Senate |
Democrats and their allies need to take a step back and look at their situation. At the state level, they are the minority party with very little influence over legislation. In the upcoming election, the Hagan re-election campaign will likely have as much impact on...
