by John Wynne | Sep 21, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Democrats, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
Apparently great minds think alike – or at least the minds of Democratic politicians in North Carolina. Today both State Senator Josh Stein and Spring Lake Mayor Chris Rey announced that they were seeking higher office. To no one’s surprise, Stein is...
by John Wynne | Sep 14, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
Richard Burr finally has a challenger. Except it’s not a Democrat. Instead, it’s someone who plans to challenge the incumbent senator from the right – Paul Wright, to be exact. Wright might be a familiar name to voters in the 4th congressional...
by John Wynne | Aug 31, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
Just in case you forgot, the Democrats are still looking for a Senate candidate to challenge Richard Burr. In the past month or so, a number of names have popped up: State Rep. Duane Hall, former State Rep. Deborah Ross, and Spring Lake Mayor Chris Rey. Now it looks...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 14, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, US Senate |
The Democrats interested in the Senate race are surfacing. The Heath Shuler trial balloon went up last week. State Representative Duane Hall announced before that. The Deborah Ross and Chris Rey balloons went up this week. And there’s plenty of time for more people to...
by John Wynne | Aug 13, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, US Senate |
A couple weeks ago, Democrats were having difficulty landing just one candidate to go up against Richard Burr. Now, they might have multiple. No one’s officially declared yet, but several folks have made it clear they’re leaning toward running....
by John Wynne | Aug 12, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Democrats, Features, National Politics, NC Politics, US Senate |
After months of almost no activity, the North Carolina Senate race is finally starting to see some movement. Over the past two weeks, a number of Democrats have expressed interest in running against incumbent Republican senator Richard Burr – two of them coming...