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. Here’s this week’s review:
Published: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 @ 5:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Fresh off a victory in New Hampshire, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives in North Carolina on Valentines Day, to begin his quest to win the North Carolina Democratic Presidential Primary with a unique opportunity
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2020 @ 9:15 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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What to watch a month out from North Carolina’s Super Tuesday Primary
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2020 @ 3:16 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2019 @ 1:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If passed, North Carolina’s hotly contested hemp law will probably end up in court, says the state legislator leading efforts to ban the plant’s smokable flower.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 @ 3:10 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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Public Policy Polling released a new poll reflecting a divide among North Carolinians over the 2020 elections for president and governor.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 11:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Many political pollsters took it on the chin in 2016. Their surveys proved to be wildly off in the presidential race, among others
Published: Sunday, June 17th, 2018 @ 1:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Republicans have enjoyed majorities in both bodies of the General Assembly for nearly seven years now, and pretty soon Phil Berger and Tim Moore will be asking for two more
Published: Saturday, September 16th, 2017 @ 10:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Bill 2 might not be the albatross for Republican Gov. Pat McCrory's re-election bid many pundits and Democrats have suggested, and his decisive response to late October's Charlotte riots could give him an electoral boost
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2016 @ 11:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Based on recent events, and lots of recent handwringing, you might think so. You might think there was no feasible way for Republicans and Democrats to work together on matters of public concern. But your conclusion would be a hasty one.
Published: Thursday, June 16th, 2016 @ 5:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has one of the most-polled electorates in the United States
Published: Tuesday, June 7th, 2016 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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So far, 2016 has turned out to be a momentous year in state politics - and the general election is still months away
Published: Thursday, May 26th, 2016 @ 2:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane cruised to a third term in Tuesday's municipal elections, and Charlotte Democrats voted to end the brief tenure of appointed Mayor Dan Clodfelter in favor of former four-term Mecklenburg County commissioner Jennifer Roberts.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In many ways, Republicans and Democrats live in different worlds. I've made the point before that the Internet, while greatly beneficial in many ways, has allowed political factions to retreat into cocoons of news, analysis, and commentary where their preconceived notions are continuously...
Published: Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 @ 3:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the 2014 campaign season, polling organizations issued dozens of surveys of North Carolina voters. If you read them carefully, you spotted the opening that Thom Tillis would later seize to upset Kay Hagan in the U.S. Senate race. A careful reading also revealed that Democrats were unlikely...
Published: Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 @ 1:26 pm
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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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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I know my editors will appreciate it, but I promise I'm not pandering when I say this: advertising gets results. Although academic scolds and professional worrywarts have been complaining about advertising ever since it was invented, the truth is that when institutions spend money effectively to...
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The first and only time I ever helped take a political survey was during my undergraduate days at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill back in the 1980s. I was one of many journalism students who made phone calls on behalf of the Carolina Poll, a regular survey of North Carolinians on...
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 5:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If Republican Thom Tillis were running for the U.S. Senate from the state of North Piedmont, he'd be clearly favored to defeat incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan. Alternatively, if Hagan represented the state of Trianglia, she'd be such a shoo-in that we'd all lose interest in the race.
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 3:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The latest poll on North Carolina's U.S. Senate race has Republican Thom Tillis (43 percent) and Democrat Kay Hagan (42 percent) neck-and-neck, with Libertarian Sean Haugh at 5 percent and 10 percent of likely voters still undecided.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 12:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has been running hard for reelection for more than a year.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've been hearing quite a bit of behind-the-scenes grumbling from GOP insiders and activists on both sides of the Raleigh beltline.
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 @ 12:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Public Policy Polling is out with some new numbers on the highly-watched US Senate race here in good ol' NC.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 12:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Now that fact checkers for The Washington Post, WRAL-TV, and FactCheck.org have all taken the Senate Majority PAC to task for its false attack ad against Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis, I've decided to intervene in the organization's defense.
Published: Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 @ 4:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've been told by Pat McCrory, Karl Rove, National Right to Life, and countless members of the drive-by media that Thom Tillis is the most-electable candidate to take on Kay Hagan in November. The problem? THE POLLS.
Published: Friday, April 11th, 2014 @ 12:55 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I had the opportunity for an audience with Charlotte pastor — and US Senate candidate — Mark Harris on Saturday. (I do have to commend him for not running away in terror after I introduced myself. For some reason, I scare some political candidates.)
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 12:17 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The NC House speaker's fan club is beside itself over the Tillis for Senate campaign's $1 million ad buy.
Published: Tuesday, March 11th, 2014 @ 6:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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The mainstream media and the political establishment are trying to tell us that state House speaker Thom Tillis is all but nominated to take on Kay Hagan in November. Public Policy Polling has been tracking the race.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 10:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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