by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 15, 2023 | Politics |
Every two years, a red flood seems to engulf rural North Carolina polling places. Republican turnout in rural areas has been staggering since the Obama era, and this consistently super performance has ensured a continuing red lean in statewide elections despite the...
by Paul Stam | Jun 9, 2023 | Politics |
Republicans meet June 8 to 11 in Greensboro. Delegates need to know that I am not running for President in 2024. Why? I am 72 years old. Before my second term expires I will be 82. I am too old. There are reasons that someone as experienced (old) as I might not be...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 5, 2023 | Politics |
Republicans have fired a barrage of rhetorical blanks on the issue of illegal immigration. Relishing President Biden’s struggles to secure the border and listening over-intently to their base, GOP politicians concluded that border security offered a choice line...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 1, 2023 | Politics |
North Carolina has a long history of political competition–and of parties being undone by that competition. The Whig Party reigned over Raleigh throughout the 1840s, growing complacent and deflecting demands from the voters even as their position quietly grew...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 25, 2023 | Politics |
This is part two of my little duopoly on the Republican gubernatorial race. Last week I evaluated Mark Robinson, still the prohibitive frontrunner even if the last few weeks’ developments have bruised his image a bit. But the fact is that several candidates have...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 16, 2023 | Politics |
“We don’t need the climate of hate that [he] is talking about. We don’t need the climate of hysteria and fear that [he] proposes.” Mark Robinson? No, I. Beverly Lake, a now-forgotten intellectual racist who confronted Terry Sanford in the 1960...
