McCrory’s a little late on that transportation plan
Pat McCrory and company rolled out a $1 billion transportation plan last week. What took him so long? Imagine how different his tenure could have been if he had rolled into Raleigh pledging to update infrastructure in the parts of the state most hurt by free trade...
Tholl roads
During the Republican primary, a little noticed issue kept popping up among TEA party groups. Thom Tillis supports toll roads in North Carolina. In particular, he supports them along 1-77 between Statesville and Charlotte. The TEA party doesn’t and they blasted Tillis...
Why education matters in the North Carolina senate race
Thom Tillis is up with another ad defending his record on education. National pundits are asking why education has so dominated the North Carolina Senate contest. It’s a subject usually confined to state politics, while federal races are more often about issues like...
Semantics over substance
Thom Tillis has a new ad up. And he’s still talking about education. As long he’s running ads about public schools, Kay Hagan’s campaign is controlling the message. Tillis needs to get off of education all together. Not many people believe Republicans spent more on...
This guy’s the bomb
Mark Walker is not ready for prime time. His victory over Phil Berger, Jr. in the primary runoff was clearly a rejection of the establishment, not an endorsement of him. And the more we learn, the more disturbed we should be. The latest disclosure is Walker’s...
It’s not math. It’s priorities.
Seems Thom Tillis and the GOP are upset about the Democratic ads claiming Republicans cut $500 million from education. They claim the ads are false and cite several fact checkers that have cast doubt about the numbers. Yesterday, John Hood of the John Locke Foundation...
Chicken Little and other GOP stories
Just a couple of weeks ago, all of the senate prognosticators indicated an almost certain GOP takeover. Nate Silver said Republicans had a 64% chance of winning the senate. Just a few months ago, the Washington Post’s Election Lab had the GOP chances at 80%. And as...
What a difference a decade makes
Thom Tillis has seen a rash of bad polls over the past week. As John Wynne noted, it’s still too early for Republicans to hit the panic button. There’s still time for the mood to change and in 2004, Richard Burr was trailing Erskine Bowles by about the same margins...
Another bad poll day for Tillis
As the political environment starts to solidify post-Labor Day, the news is not good for Thom Tillis. Two more polls show him trailing Kay Hagan by significant margins. That’s five polls released in the last week that show Hagan breaking away. The Elon University poll...
Train wreck
The GOP took control of the North Carolina legislature almost four years ago and they’ve made a mess. The latest evidence? A $200 million hole in a budget that’s not yet three months old. At that rate, the hole will be $1.2 BILLION by the end of the fiscal year. But...
