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President Donald Trump and Senator Thom Tillis led Republicans to strong victories across the state in Council of State, judicial and legislative races.
Published: Wednesday, November 4th, 2020 @ 5:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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The newest Civitas Poll showed state House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Republican, with a slight edge over Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in voters' views of the U.S. Senate candidates.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 8:22 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Yep. That's the verdict handed down by Washington Post columnist and drive-by media pundit E.J. Dionne regarding our US Senate race this year.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 4:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Senator Kay Hagan's husband and son created a solar energy contracting company in August 2010, and then, using $250,644 in federal stimulus grant funds, her husband hired that same company to install solar panels at a building he owns.
Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 1:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Nationally known political analyst Charlie Cook said at Elon University today that the North Carolina contest for U.S. Senate, in a year in which the political balance in the nation’s capital is at stake, could be the closest race in the country.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 12:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper is starting to remind me of Peter Gibbons, the main character in the cult hit movie "Office Space."
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 1:33 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've had that rotund, jheri-curled oaf Bill Barber out there for months hollering about the white Republicans on Jones Street.
Published: Saturday, June 21st, 2014 @ 6:41 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As the ink begins to dry on vote totals from Tuesday's North Carolina primary, political observers in the Tar Heel state are preparing for what should be one of the most-watched races in the country: the U.S. Senate contest between incumbent Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, Republican state House...
Published: Tuesday, May 13th, 2014 @ 1:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am hearing from quite a few folks who heard from Pat McCrory on their home telephones Sunday evening.
Published: Saturday, May 10th, 2014 @ 12:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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It's always charming when two geriatric liberals attend the same event and come away with two very different accounts.
Published: Sunday, April 27th, 2014 @ 5:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate debates in the GOP primary race.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 11:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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State House speaker and Senate candidate Thom Tillis likes to talk about what the General Assembly — under his leadership — has done to improve the business climate in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 @ 10:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Until now, it's been easy to draw comparisons between the 2014 US Senate GOP primary in North Carolina and the 2010 Kentucky GOP Senate primary, featuring a doctor - and political novice - and a seasoned, well-funded state government official.
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2013 @ 12:18 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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State House Speaker Thom Tillis has been tooting his own horn about his fundraising prowess. ONE MILLION DOLLARS, his campaign web site trumpets. What he downplays is that about one-quarter of that came out of his own pockets.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 @ 1:14 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As the enrollment period for Obamacare experiences a rocky start, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt says his state's "very consequential" lawsuit against the mandates in the health insurance law could lead to a fiscal nightmare in 34 states.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 12:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Well, it appears Walter Jones is picking up another primary opponent.
Published: Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 @ 9:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday struck back at the federal government, saying the U.S. Department of Justice was "working in the fringes." McCrory, a Republican, said the state would defend the lawsuit filed by the Democratic administration of President Barack Obama against the state's new election...
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 3:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's a revolution coming in this country. A growing majority of ordinary people (i.e., not the political elite) are simply fed up with government the way it has been operating the last few years, by both political parties.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 1:31 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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The turmoil within the Craven County Republican Party is a symbolic, localized representation of the nationwide struggle between limited-government forces and statist establishment types for the soul of the GOP.
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 8:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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What about state House Speaker Thom Tillis - the establishment favorite currently running slightly behind Brannon in polling matchups with Hagan?
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 7:59 am
By: Brant Clifton
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New York Times blogger Nate Silver has been pretty doggone prescient in recent years with his election prognostications. He has an interesting observation regarding the 2014 battle for control of the US Senate
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2013 @ 5:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's been the conventional wisdom that State House Speaker Thom Tillis was national Republicans' odds-on favorite to take on incumbent Democrat US Senator Kay Hagan in November 2014.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 10:08 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We're just rolling back in to Haymaker HQ after a long relaxing, enjoyable Independence Day weekend.
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2013 @ 1:14 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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You may recall our previous coverage of efforts by Craven County Republicans to censure state House Speaker Thom Tillis. What is behind all of this?
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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A poll by the left-wing Public Policy Polling firm of Durham suggests that a grassroots, Tea Party-backed amateur candidate and the president pro tem of the State Senate would perform the strongest against incumbent US Senator Kay Hagan (D).
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 @ 9:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Well, it looks like the NCGOP will be led for the next two years by by Chairman Claude Pope of Brunswick County (formerly of Wake) and Vice-chairman Joyce Krawiec of Winston-Salem.
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 7:13 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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NCGOP activists have poured into Charlotte this weekend for their state convention. They'll hear from some of the US Senate hopefuls looking to replace Kay Hagan.
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 10:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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