Nothing matters anymore
US Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) showed us where the Republican Party is today. Alexander told us that, yes, Donald Trump asked the Ukrainian government to interfere in our elections, but it doesn’t matter. It’s not enough to impeach the president. Just a few years...
The party of Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz is one of those high-powered attorneys who likes nothing more than to be at the center of media attention. One reason he’s a great lawyer is that he can argue both sides of any case. He’s doing that right now. Back in 1998, during the Clinton...
Pity the down ballot candidates
This election cycle is going to be tough on down ballot races. Donald Trump is sucking the wind out of all the news and voters only have so much room for politics in their daily lives. Campaigns will struggle to get much attention from the press and will struggle even...
So little
The attacks ads against Thom Tillis should be brutal. And they probably should have started by now. I hope the national Democrats are up for this cycle. Not in my lifetime has North Carolina had a US Senator who had so few convictions and stood for so little. He...
So much for patriotism
Back in 2009, I walked into my house and noticed a shadow moving through my living room and saw broken glass strewn across the floor. I knew immediately that someone had broken into my house and that he was still there. I slowly backed out of the house. When I got...
Controlling for education
Like North Carolina, Georgia has long been a state that Democrats have been waiting to turn blue. As the population becomes more urban and diverse, the voters tend to prefer progressive policies to conservatives ones. But the wait has been long. Then, an Atlanta...
I don’t want Trump removed
I don’t want the Senate to remove Donald Trump from office. I want him to be voted out in a humiliating defeat in November. That’s not to say I don’t think he should have been impeached or that I don’t think he’s guilty. I just believe that the best way to reverse the...
King’s dream in Rocky Mount
Today, we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His most famous speech is the one delivered at the March on Washington in 1963. Almost a year before that, he gave an early version of it in Rocky Mount North Carolina. Fortunately, it was recorded....
Trump and populist legacies
Yesterday, Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia Center for Politics tweeted a photo of an old newspaper with the headline “Effort Being Made to Impeach Gov. Long.” The article refers to Huey Long, the governor and US Senator of Louisiana who ruled the state...
NC08: The most competitive race
Full Disclosure: I am working with Pat Timmons-Goodson to launch her campaign. Fuller Disclosure: I couldn't be more proud to be helping her campaign. When Republicans in the North Carolina legislature redrew Congressional districts last fall, they gave themselves...
