a shocking development, Kay Hagan’s campaign admitted to the Associated Press that Sen. Hagan skipped a classified national security briefing on February 27, 2014 to attend a cocktail fundraising reception in New York City.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 5:47 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Several drive-by sources are already chalking up Tillis’s troubles to the “unpopular” Republican majority in the North Carolina General Assembly. Never mind that the average voter can’t name their state representative or state senator.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 1:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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If you are like me, and don’t watch much TV — the senatorial debate last night gave you a great recap of all the “fun” you’ve missed.
Published: Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 @ 10:57 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Okay. It’s become pretty clear that Kay Hagan’s upper middle-class family has benefited greatly from our bloated state and federal governments.
Published: Monday, October 6th, 2014 @ 6:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Nothing undercuts the enjoyment of watching football (Go Steelers!) on a Sunday afternoon more than tiresome political ads, particularly those pro-Kay Hagan ads that employ "political sleight of hand" to substantiate claims of funding cuts to public education in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 4:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The on-going US Senate race in North Carolina is really roiling Tar Heel conservatives.
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 3:48 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Kay Hagan's campaign and its trolls are all over social media trumpeting a report published in the Greensboro News & Record that says North Carolina "ranks as worst state for teachers."
Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2014 @ 1:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The 2009 so-called "stimulus" passed by the Congress was one of the biggest budget-busting, deficit-growing, big-government, cronyism-enabling scams to ever come out of our capital city.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 12:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As we go to press, polls are showing incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan with a slender lead over her Republican challenger, House Speaker Thom Tillis. And Hagan received a minor bump after Labor Day, no doubt as the result of a host of ads from Hagan and allied groups on education funding...
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is an election year, and that means our televisions and radios are littered with campaign ads. Advertisements try to persuade you to vote for candidates based upon their morals, past experience, community involvement, and ability to influence or pass legislation. Or they attack with a sensational
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are a lot of Republicans around who would LOVE to see a poll with a number next to Thom Tillis's name that is bigger than the number next to Kay Hagan's name.
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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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We reported about an "interesting" real estate deal involving Senate candidate Thom Tillis and some high-dollar donors to his campaign.
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 9:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The question of whether North Carolina education spending has increased or decreased is front and center in the race for U.S. Senate. Supporters of Democrat Kay Hagan's campaign have bombarded the airwaves with claims that Republican candidate Thom Tillis cut $500 million from the state education...
Published: Sunday, September 21st, 2014 @ 8:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political prognosticator, cable TV talking head, and UVa political scientist Larry Sabato is seeing things trending Kay Hagan’s way this year.
Published: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 @ 11:36 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, that didn’t take long. Mother Jones, the vanguard of leftist journalism, has jumped into the fray with an insinuation that Thom Tillis is a racist.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 1:43 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Just before Labor Day, the publicly available polls of likely voters had incumbent U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan roughly tied with her Republican challenger, Thom Tillis. Since Labor Day, the polling average has shifted about three points in Hagan's direction.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 12:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's Time For Kay Hagan To Explain To North Carolina Why She Sided With President Obama Over Our State's Law Enforcement Community By Voting To Confirm Debo Adegbile. If Senator Hagan Is Willing To Completely Ignore North Carolinians By Supporting Such A Flawed And Controversial Nominee, She...
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 5:27 pm
By: Chris Downey
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A new Civitas Flash Poll shows that likely NC voters view former President George W. Bush more favorably than President Obama.
Published: Saturday, September 13th, 2014 @ 7:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Two Thom Tillis press releases for the time it takes to find and read one.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 8:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tillis campaign pollster Glen Bolger, whose firm is known by the unfortunate acronym POS, has released a poll showing the 2014 US Senate race all knotted up at 44 percent apiece.
Published: Wednesday, September 10th, 2014 @ 7:48 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I had to convince myself repeatedly that this was NOT a Saturday Night Live skit. The drive-bys subjected us AND the candidates with some moronic, leftist questions.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 1:03 am
By: Brant Clifton
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he drive-bys are working hard to gin up some interest in tonight's US Senate debate. They are trying to sell us on the possibility that this televised event tonight could change the course of the race.
Published: Friday, September 5th, 2014 @ 9:26 am
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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Former GOP legislator John Rhodes — now a conservative independent is taking the fight directly to major party candidates Kay Hagan and Thom Tillis.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 7:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Kay Hagan and her comrades in the drive-by media want to talk about education in terms of "cuts", how much is and is not being spent on various government programs, and how evil Republicans are toward the "lil' chil'ren."
Published: Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Post says Republicans will take the US Senate, but we - in North Carolina - can likely expect SIX MORE YEARS of Kay Hagan.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 10:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Yep. That's the way veteran political analyst Dan Balz characterizes the 2014 tussle between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean Haugh.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 10:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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During the recently-completed GOP primary for US Senate, speaker Thom Tillis told a fundraiser crowd in Wilmington he favored the retention of state incentives for studios shooting movies and TV shows in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 12:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Kay Hagan thinks businesses should be mandated to provide PAID leave to employees to deal with family concerns like childbirth or sick children.
Published: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 8:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The US Supreme Court is acting incredibly sensible these days. One of their latest decisions, the Hobby Lobby case, offered up some protections for employers dealing with the ObamaCare atrocity being shoved down their throats.
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2014 @ 9:49 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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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I was having a decent morning yesterday until I saw the latest television ad by Senate Majority PAC, the same outfit that disseminated ridiculous claims about North Carolina's tax reforms.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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