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With several days of in-person early voting remaining, ballots cast so far in the 2018 general election already have exceeded all ballots cast early during the 2014 midterm election
Published: Tuesday, October 30th, 2018 @ 9:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Was the 2014 Senate race between Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and Republican victor Thom Tillis really the most expensive race in North Carolina history, or in the country's entire election cycle last year?
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 5:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pretty much as soon as the polls closed on Election Day 2014, the political prognosticators began laying bets on what will happen by Election Day 2016. At the national level, attention quickly focused on the seemingly endless parade of Republicans seeking to take on Hillary Clinton.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Elections today released demographic statistics for the 2014 General Election.
Published: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 @ 12:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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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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All 100 county boards of election will meet Friday morning to authenticate results from the 2014 General Election.
Published: Friday, November 14th, 2014 @ 10:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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The election of 2014 will have widespread impacts. It will determine who will control the legislative branch, directly affect policy decisions (whether to repeal, replace, or renew earlier reforms), and set the stage of the 2016 election and beyond.
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 1:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the 2014 election cycle draws to a close, few states have drawn so much national attention as North Carolina, thanks to the tight Hagan-Tillis race, the dramatic turn in state government from blue to red, and our status as a presidential swing state in 2008 and 2012.
Published: Friday, October 31st, 2014 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The silly season is here as we move towards the end of the 2014 election cycle and the different races move into high gear.
Published: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 @ 12:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As early voting opens for the 2014 general election, an attorney representing the state in the lawsuit fighting state election law reforms is seeking further information regarding statements made earlier this month by the Rev. William Barber at the state NAACP convention.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 2:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's 2014 general election will take place under the election laws enacted last year by the General Assembly as the result of a ruling late Wednesday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 12:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Find out where your county commissioner and state legislative candidates stand on education issues Tuesday, Sept. 30, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Washington High School auditorium sponsored by Beaufort County Community College and the Beaufort County Schools.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If your email gets a "Morning Jolt" or you consult "The Campaign Spot" regularly at National Review Online, you know that Jim Geraghty keeps a close watch on electoral developments across the country. Geraghty is a contributing editor at National Review. During a recent visit to North Carolina...
Published: Sunday, September 7th, 2014 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Republican Party has announced the location and schedule for the County Party Headquarters for the 2014 election season.
Published: Sunday, September 7th, 2014 @ 10:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Advancement Project, in a press release dated August 21, announced that the North Carolina NAACP was appealing U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder’s decision earlier this month to deny a preliminary injunction to block certain provisions of VIVA in the November 2014 election.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 5:11 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the North Carolina General Assembly continues to wind down its legislative work for 2014, my Carolina Journal colleagues are already turning their attention toward what promises to be a fascinating midterm election cycle.
Published: Thursday, July 24th, 2014 @ 6:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2014 Primary Election is over and only one legislative race remains undecided. In N.C. House District 23 Democratic primary, where four candidates were vying for the open seat, no candidate received more than 40 percent of the total vote. As a result, the candidate in second place...
Published: Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 @ 6:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The 2014 election cycle has seen an unprecedented effort by out of state groups through independent expenditures to control the results of Republican primaries for Congress and the Senate in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2014 @ 4:04 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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On May 6, 2014, voters will go to the polls to select the Republican nominee for the general election in November. As in all political races, it is important the voter makes an informed decision. To that end, I would like to present some information to help clarify a few key issues.
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 12:32 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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Liberals have long misused words to suit their needs, and often embrace the banning of some words to suit other needs. Semantics obfuscation is an important tool of the Liberal. Now, here in Beaufort County, nominal Republicans embrace the Liberal's tool of talk.
Published: Saturday, March 29th, 2014 @ 6:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Because I enjoy watching and analyzing legislative politics, it pains me to say this: for the 2014 election cycle in North Carolina, the most competitive and fateful races will be found at the top and bottom of the ballot — not in state house and senate contests, which probably aren't going...
Published: Thursday, March 27th, 2014 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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And so it begins again. Filing is over, and the 2014 election cycle is off and running. North Carolinians will elect a U.S. senator and 13 U.S. representatives to serve in Washington. We will elect 50 state senators and 120 state representatives to the North Carolina General Assembly.
Published: Saturday, March 8th, 2014 @ 2:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If a primary election is necessary, it will be held during the regularly scheduled primary date of May 6, 2014. Should a runoff be needed, it will be held July 15, 2014. The election to fill the seat will be held November 4, 2014, the general election date for all of North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 @ 10:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Even though Election Day 2014 is nearly 11 months away, the editors and staff of Carolina Journal already have begun reporting and offering analysis of key races across North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 @ 12:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While political analysts are trying to understand how the most recent municipal elections reflect the current climate and impact outcomes in the 2014 elections, there are two obvious conclusions of statewide note.
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2013 @ 11:45 am
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina's junior senator Kay Hagan, up for reelection in 2014, supports a two-month delay in the enrollment deadline. So do several other Democrats running for election or reelection to the U.S. Senate next year. Their colleague, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, supports a yearlong...
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2013 @ 7:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After a weekend of online chatter, media spin, and political fulminations, there can be no doubt that the end of the 2013 legislative session was, in truth, the start of the 2014 election cycle.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina could come full circle by 2014 in the way candidates for judicial posts are identified. Currently, judicial elections are nonpartisan. Republicans in the House and the Senate have filed bills that would restore...
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 4:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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