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#ncga: The battle for a Jones Street majority

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The US Senate race has been sucking up so much oxygen during this campaign season.  I thought it might be time to check in with some folks who are intimately

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Judicial tyranny (You may now kiss the, um, “bride”)

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Why bother having elections?  We have these unelected law school graduates in black robes regularly stomping all over the will of the people and their elected officials.  Want to make

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A nasty, post-election lame duck surprise

Posted on October 10, 2014October 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Remember the whole debate over letting states impose sales taxes on Internet businesses?    Well, it will be back AFTER the November election.  Yep. All of those folks fresh off

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#ncsen: Final Debate post-game

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I liked the format of Thursday’s debate much better than the previous two. It allowed for more of a give-and-take between the candidates. It was also interesting to experience Sean

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Congress and the art of “getting something done”

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Renee Ellmers has spent nearly four years in Congress.  For that entire period, the Dunn Republican has served in a Republican majority. Ellmers is all over the TV and newspapers.

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Are DC, nat’l media losing interest in #NCSEN?

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Prior to — and since — the May primaries, we were told that Kay Hagan is DEAD MEAT. Lately, it’s been hard to detect any evidence of that.  The GOP

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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#ncsen: Tillis campaign internal poll says Hagan 44, Tillis 42, Haugh 6

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Brant Clifton

A month ago, the SAME pollster had the race at 44-44-8. How can this be viewed as good news for Tillis, you ask?  National Journal has the 4-1-1 on this

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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NC-02: Reality, meet Renee. Renee? Meet Reality.

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers was in one of her favorite places — Raleigh — to talk about how jonesed she is about the fight against ObamaCare.  It’s as though 2013 NEVER HAPPENED.

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Congress, Media, Moore County
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Some common sense from the bench. FINALLY.

Posted on October 9, 2014October 9, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve had judges try to tell us that Jefferson, Adams & co. all created a right to taxpayer-funded abortion when they drafted our Constitution.  We’ve had judges rule that rights

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#ncsen: Tillis son jumps into political consulting

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Is there room for TWO members of the Tillis family in North Carolina politics?  I guess we’ll soon find out. Ryan Tillis, the son of US Senate candidate Thom and

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Congress, Media
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