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poll bodes well for GOP in midterms
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 @ 1:34 pm
By: John Steed
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authoritarian Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer crashing
Published: Tuesday, September 21st, 2021 @ 4:30 am
By: John Steed
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed.
Published: Saturday, June 6th, 2020 @ 12:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As North Carolina grapples with President Trump’s call to pull the Republican National Convention from Charlotte, both Democrats and Republicans are seizing on the moment — using the fight to appeal to their respective bases.
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2020 @ 1:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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What do North Carolina voters think of the job Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has done over his first two and a half years in the office? The signals are mixed at the moment.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 @ 1:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Do you find divided government frustrating or exhilarating? Either way, you might as well get used to it. North Carolina is likely to be a political battleground for many years to come.
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2019 @ 10:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For years, Democrats have consoled themselves after losing elections in North Carolina or elsewhere by insisting that demographic trends were still moving inexorably in their direction
Published: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Barack Obama's job-approval rating has risen over the past two months. I think I know the reason why - and North Carolina politicians should take note of it.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 @ 4:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Prediction is very difficult," said physicist Niels Bohr, "especially if it's about the future."
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2015 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A few weeks ago, I wrote that partisan control of the U.S. Senate may well be determined here in North Carolina, where Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan suffers from low job-approval ratings and a close association with unpopular President Barack Obama.
Published: Monday, April 28th, 2014 @ 7:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If North Carolina Democrats were to gain some legislative seats this year, state and national pundits would probably spill gobs of ink - or at least fill gobs of pixels - with elaborate explanations of how the party began to recover its footing in a state it once dominated.
Published: Tuesday, March 11th, 2014 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"I am hurt," says the dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet after trying to stand up for his friend Romeo and getting stabbed for it. "A plague o' both your houses!" In popular remembrance, we actually invest the Bard's line with even more poetic force by substituting a different word when wishing...
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 @ 6:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have no problem offering electoral predictions. Until 2008, I had a fairly good record pegging races, and my 2010 predictions proved to be within a couple of seats of the actual congressional and legislative results.
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 @ 6:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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