Tyranny of the minority
Pat McCrory and the Republicans crowing about cutting taxes and a budget surplus remind me of a guy who moves his family from a nice bungalow in a middle class neighborhood to a broken down mobile home in a shady trailer park and brags about the money he’s saving....
Polls: Advantage Cooper
Two polls that came out yesterday are good news for Democrats. The most striking numbers are in the race for governor. The Monmouth University poll has Roy Cooper leading Pat McCrory by nine points, 52-43. Cooper leads 52-46 in the CNN/Ipsos poll. It’s significant...
Losing numbers, gaining voters
Catawba College political scientist Michael Bitzer does a great job of tracking and analyzing voter registration trends in the state. Today, he has a post that compares the registration make up of people who registered before 2012 to those who registered after 2012....
Screwed
Wake County Commissioner Caroline Sullivan is getting screwed. She’s a casualty of GOP mismanagement of our state. Sullivan did nothing wrong and yet she’s paying a price for legislative overreach and abuse of power. That’s wrong It’s a twisted tale. In 2011, the GOP...
What a campaign!
The Trump campaign really is a fascinating beast. Trump fired most of the political professionals around him and replaced them with media hacks. He brought in the chairman of Breitbart News to lead his campaign. Last night, we learned that Sean Hannity is serving as...
A scary situation
Republicans across the country are starting worry about Richard Burr. For most of the cycle, GOP insiders seemed to think that he would be alright. He had a large war chest and has proven to be hard campaigner with few high negatives. Now, though, Donald Trump...
Voter frauds
The past few weeks have made it clear that the only people threatening the integrity of elections in North Carolina are the Trumpists leading the Republican party. First, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals showed that the voter suppression law passed in 2013 clearly...
Trump unchained
So Donald Trump has hired Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen Bannon to take over his campaign. So much for that pivot. Breitbart News is the legacy of the late Andrew Breitbart who ginned up the GOP base with internet-based red meat. The news site has been...
Trump’s missing campaign
Donald Trump put out a tweet yesterday that pretty much explains the operational problem with his campaign. “My rallies are not covered properly by the media. They never discuss the real message and never show crowd size or enthusiasm.” As usual, he’s blaming the...
Discrimination as a political tool
So far, the courts are protecting the people of North Carolina against GOP attempts to rig the political system using discrimination. First, they found the 2011 Congressional redistricting unconstitutional because of racial gerrymandering. Next, they threw out the...
