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Polling trends along with changing demographics of the electorate are key to 2022
Published: Monday, May 24th, 2021 @ 10:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Saturday, April 24th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 4:17 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The clock on partisan gerrymandering keeps ticking
Published: Sunday, July 8th, 2018 @ 9:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Speaker Tim Moore filed a constitutional amendment requiring photo identification to vote in North Carolina elections
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2018 @ 12:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Read the latest court opinion in North Carolina’s ongoing fight over electoral redistricting, and you might sense a growing disconnect between the world governed by constitutional law and the world most people understand
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2017 @ 2:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When trying to make sense of North Carolina's legal fights over electoral redistricting, one is reminded of an old line from baseball stadium vendors: "You can't tell the players without a scorecard."
Published: Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 @ 3:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed a lower-court ruling throwing out congressional district maps North Carolina used for the 2012 and 2014 elections
Published: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 @ 5:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative redistricting reform proponents on the Left have become more vocal since Republicans took control of the legislature in 2010
Published: Thursday, April 13th, 2017 @ 9:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Momma always said, "Don't wish your life away" whenever I, as a young boy, would declare I couldn't wait until Christmas or my birthday. But even momma would agree with me that I can't wait until November 9th when this election is over.
Published: Friday, October 14th, 2016 @ 1:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Even with so many legislative races already decided and so many others that appear to be sure things, Democrats believe they can make inroads into the Republican majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly this year.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2016 @ 1:05 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Legal analysts have given the opinion by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturning North Carolina's election reform law, including its voter ID requirement, mixed reviews.
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2016 @ 9:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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NC Capitol Connection is posting election results. They are revealing about what voters really need
Published: Sunday, June 12th, 2016 @ 10:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina Republican lawmakers have answered a three-judge panel ruling earlier this month with a new congressional map that makes changes to all 13 districts and looks very different from the map it replaced. Since the unveiling, Gov. Pat McCrory has called the General Assembly back into a spe
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 12:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) delivered the Weekly Republican Address, during which he discussed why the American people deserve to have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court Justice and the need for the Senate to focus on bipartisan efforts to help hardworking Americans.
Published: Sunday, March 20th, 2016 @ 10:34 am
By: Thom Tillis
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When WRAL reported on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to throw out North Carolina's congressional maps barely a month ahead of the 2016 Primary, the station's "journalists" turned to their friends in three different organizations belonging to Blueprint NC (the "eviscerate"* group)...
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 3:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The recent abrupt departure of Tony Tata as secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has left many in government and political circles in Raleigh and across the state talking. His manner of leaving — with no public notice, while repeating the cliché about...
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 12:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Two weeks into the hearing over North Carolina’s 2013 election laws, we have reached some conclusions.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2015 @ 3:39 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In two previous articles, we examined how Republican political consultants in North Carolina have pushed the agenda of Big Solar - the solar power companies and their millionaire owners - in order to protect renewable power source mandates, thus driving up electricity bills and hampering the...
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 @ 3:11 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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They say "timing is everything", but it's hard to understand the timing behind this week's "Bad Bill of the Week"; House Bill 239, Restore Early Voting Days. HB 239's primary sponsors Larry Hall (D-Durham), Marvin Lucas (D-Cumberland), Garland Pierce (D-Hoke) and Pricey Harrison (D-Guilford) are...
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 @ 10:19 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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I continue to receive mail requesting that I donate money to the National GOP. I have sent a note to stop these requests. Today, I received a card in the mail identifying me as a donor.
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: Ray Leary
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, January 24th, 2015 @ 3:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Democrat named Arthur Williams represented the Outer Banks-centered Sixth District in the North Carolina House from 2003-2011. During that time, he was a good Democrat — a good soldier for then Senate boss Marc Basnight and then-House speaker Jim Black.
Published: Monday, January 12th, 2015 @ 9:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Naughty and Nice: North Carolina had plenty of both this year. Here is our list!
Published: Sunday, January 4th, 2015 @ 12:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Sunday, December 28th, 2014 @ 10:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservatives have plenty of reasons to be happy about the outcomes of elections across the United States in 2014.
Published: Monday, December 15th, 2014 @ 10:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With his apologist foreign policy in tatters, more Americans beheaded and slaughtered abroad, Amateur Obama will force his political hand in Washington, DC on Thursday night, November 20, 2014, by blaming the Republicans in the United States House as America's number one enemy.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 1:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When the news broke that Rep. Tim Moore would be the Republican nominee for speaker of the North Carolina House and Rep. Mike Hager would be majority leader, the usual suspects did the usual things.
Published: Thursday, November 27th, 2014 @ 10:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Turnout in the Nov. 4 midterm election appeared to rebuff claims that the sweeping 2013 election reform law passed by the General Assembly led to voter suppression.
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 12:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Why did Democrats have a disappointing midterm election? Ask the Democrats. They've been thinking about this a lot and offer many explanations. Let's explore their various legends of the fall campaign.
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Polling, it is said, is more of an art than a science. Pollsters are among the first to say this — particularly when the products, causes, or candidates they project to succeed fall flat.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican margins in the 2014 elections were "significant," suggesting they would have won many of the same victories in a presidential election year as they did during this midterm race.
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 7:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two aspects of the 2014 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 3:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Months ago, as the 2014 election cycle was shaping up as a good one for Republicans, the Democrats in North Carolina resolved to buck the trend. They had a great deal of help
Published: Thursday, November 6th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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