Why Shumer is right and wrong
It’s hard to predict what the political environment will be like in 2016, but in 2014, it was lousy for Democrats because people were dissatisfied with the direction of the country. Charles Shumer blamed Democrats’ focus on health care reform, instead of jobs and the...
McCrory’s off and running for the middle
Well, Pat McCrory is off and running. He’s got a shiny new web site and a campaign video to boot. He’s kicking off his re-election campaign, officially or unofficially, before the legislature gets back in town and while his approval ratings have recovered from his...
Speaker Moore, from Cleveland County
Cleveland County has long held a place of political prominence in North Carolina. For much of the early 20th century, the Shelby Dynasty dominated North Carolina politics. O. Max Gardner and his brother-in-law Clyde R. Hoey led a group of pro-business Democrats who...
Fantasy politics: Paul vs. Warren
While other people are grooming their fantasy football teams, I’m warming up my fantasy presidential contest. My candidates are Elizabeth Warren and Rand Paul. Not the Rand Paul who is pandering to social conservatives and war mongers, but the libertarian Rand Paul...
Thanks
Thanks to everyone for reading my blog. Thanks especially to those who've taken time to join in the conversation with comments and posts. Thanks to John Wynne for posting consistently interesting analysis and commentary. Thanks to Alex Jones for his frequent and...
Voters aren’t stupid
In response to my post yesterday, a Republican friend wrote that Democratic claims might have worked if they had not been exaggerated. He also said that “low information, late breaking swing voters don't believe it is logically possible to raise everybody's taxes AND...
Crashing Google: What Republicans think happened in North Carolina
While Democrats like me are pontificating about why Democrats lost and what they need to do to win in the future, Republicans have their own ideas about what happened. Democrats would be wise to listen. In North Carolina, the GOP says, Democrats made three major...
An incentive to act
Republicans are getting bent out of shape over President Obama’s executive order offer resident status to almost 5 million undocumented immigrants. As ABC's Rick Klein notes, the move is really an attempt to force the GOP into action--any action. Pass a bill or...
Feel their pain
As has been noted repeatedly since the election, Democrats have a problem with white working class voters. They have been voting increasingly Republican almost continually since 1994. This year they broke for the GOP by almost 30 points and even younger voters gave...
Whining coming from winners
Winston Churchill once said, “History is written by the victors.” So the Thom Tillis campaign team took exception to the narrative that Kay Hagan’s campaign team ran a good race. They’ve gone out of their way to debunk the theory. To paraphrase their candidate, that...
