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word is out that he is trying to organize an exploratory committee
Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2025 @ 8:23 pm
By: John Steed
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power couple's involvement leads to political chatter by voters
Published: Sunday, February 11th, 2024 @ 1:50 pm
By: John Steed
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Tennessee GOP Senator Bill Hagerty, who served as the ambassador to Japan under former President Donald Trump, endorsed his former boss’ candidacy over the weekend.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 4:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Republican Party announced Tuesday that its chair, Michael Whatley, has been appointed as the new general counsel for the Republican National Committee.
Published: Saturday, March 18th, 2023 @ 12:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new rundown of the top 10 U.S. Senate races in the country most likely to flip puts the North Carolina horserace between Republican Ted Budd and Democrat Cheri Beasley in sixth place.
Published: Friday, October 14th, 2022 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Dallas Woodhouse describes what he was doing on 9/11.
Published: Friday, October 29th, 2021 @ 7:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In public and behind the scenes, there’s a lot of movement on both sides of the aisle as candidates prepare to enter the race to succeed retiring Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, setting up competitive primaries and a general election race in 2022.
Published: Thursday, February 4th, 2021 @ 12:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Government programs such as welfare and other social means-tested programs characterize very well the government's general policy towards poverty: Make individuals "comfortable" in their poverty rather than incentivize them to become self-sufficient.
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2018 @ 9:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s selection for chief deputy attorney general wrote a legal memo supporting “contingency funds” that were outside legislative oversight in an opinion that seemed to be at odds with his boss at the time, Roy Cooper, who now is North Carolina’s governor
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2017 @ 9:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis and N.C. Gov.-elect Roy Cooper are among those who have sent public thoughts and prayers to the family of former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, who was hospitalized Thursday with an undisclosed illness.
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 @ 1:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the fall campaign in North Carolina, the presidential and gubernatorial races captured most of the attention
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When then-Congressman Richard Burr first ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004, he drew a tough Democratic opponent: former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles
Published: Sunday, November 6th, 2016 @ 1:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Burr campaign today announced the "Veterans for Burr" leadership team with members from cities and towns throughout North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 @ 6:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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You've no doubt heard the spin put on the outcome of the Iowa caucuses, but when you cut through the noise this week's vote was a good indicator of what to expect going forward.
Published: Wednesday, February 17th, 2016 @ 3:07 am
By: Tom Campbell
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What IS a Republican? Is it merely someone who marks an 'R' on their voter registration card? Is it someone who seeks to protect the common people from the excesses of government bureaucracy?
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina features "undoubtedly the premier governor's race of the country" for 2016, and if the election were held today GOP Gov. Pat McCrory would be re-elected despite shaky approval ratings, said Tom Jensen, director of the Raleigh-based firm Public Policy Polling.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 6:23 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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Whether your team won or lost a good friend put this week's elections in proper perspective.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 11:44 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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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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Who says you shouldn't mix religion and politics? God and government were invoked Thursday night as solutions to the nation's ills during a three-way debate
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 6:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Those of you who were hoping for a more aggressive strategy out of the Tillis campaign are likely going to be disappointed.
Published: Thursday, September 25th, 2014 @ 11:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As Republicans continue to portray Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan as joined at the hip to an unpopular President Obama, and with congressional approval ratings in the ditch, the freshman senator’s best campaign strategy is to avoid national issues, political observers say.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A week back, leftist pollster PPP came out with a poll showing the state of the race as: Hagan 39, Tillis 34, Haugh 11.
Published: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014 @ 1:40 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Election watchers suggest that, including outlays from candidates, political parties, and independent expenditure groups, more than $75 million could be spent in this year's U.S. Senate campaign featuring Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis.
Published: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During her 2008 U.S. Senate campaign, Kay Hagan promised North Carolinians she would be a "moderate" and "independent" voice in Washington.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 8:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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U.S. Senate hopeful Greg Brannon issued fiery constitutional rhetoric and delivered the biggest applause lines Friday night from an audience of about 600 people as he ran away with a straw poll at a Republican candidates forum.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 7:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three Republican candidates are battling for their party's nomination to succeed Democrat Mike McIntyre as North Carolina's 7th District Congressman. McIntyre, who held the job for nine two-year terms, chose not to seek re-election this year. He won his race two years ago by just...
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 2:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For Democrats to retain control of the U.S. Senate, they need to keep GOP gains to no more than five seats, which would leave the chamber split and Vice President Joe Biden - Leslie Knope's dream date - the deciding vote.
Published: Wednesday, April 9th, 2014 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Carter Wrenn - Richard Morgan's pre-weight loss doppelganger - has surfaced like Captain Ahab's white whale to do a wee bit of the GOP establishment's dirty work in a post on his low-traffic, lightly-read web site
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 7:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Elections have consequences. In 1980, we put out Jimmy Carter, elected Ronald Reagan, and got tax cuts and unprecedented economic growth.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Gov. Pat McCrory took our advice and signed that voter ID bill passed by the General Assembly. Kudos to him. The bill didn't go as far as I would like to see it go, but something is better than nothing.
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 10:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A reporter, television-radio executive, and U.S. Senator, Jesse Helms was born October 18, 1921, in Monroe, N.C., to Jesse Alexander and Ethel Mae Helms.
Published: Saturday, August 10th, 2013 @ 3:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is looking more and more like Charlotte pastor Mark Harris is about to join Cary physician Greg Brannon and state House Speaker Thom Tillis in the May 2014 GOP primary to pick an opponent for incumbent US Senator Kay Hagan (D).
Published: Friday, June 28th, 2013 @ 11:25 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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