Before the nation was captivated by Donald Trump’s blunt talk, North Carolina had state senator Bob Rucho. Rucho wasn’t exactly a doctrinaire conservative. He left us scratching our collective heads
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They threw everything but the kitchen sink at sheriff Sam Page. They outspent him 100-to-1. But when the smoke cleared, the grassroots-powered Page campaign came out on top of incumbent
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I can’t recall the last time we had this much of this kind of action in General Assembly primaries. Assembly seats are not exactly in high demand. Usually, if you
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For the Berger machine, Rockingham County keeps delivering the hits. Not only did senator Phil Berger – the capo di tutti – come up short at the end of Tuesday,
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We have an open US Senate seat at a time Republicans are trying to hold onto a slim majority in that chamber. Yet, the political universe is beside itself over
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I’ve been tired of this guy since 2011. But – dammit – he just won’t go away. Here’s the latest problem:
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Getting *Nagied* is what too often happens to local pols here in Moore County who disagree with the Marxist leanings of the county’s barely-readable, money-bleeding daily newspaper, Pravda-on-Pennsylvania. The Nagification
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Why is the gambling business so interested in North Carolina’s GOP primaries for the General Assembly? Have they been promised something? Why are there such great efforts to hide the
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The heat in this Lee County / Moore County-centered open seat got turned up a notch today with a surprise celebrity endorsement. Former two-term lieutenant governor Dan Forest – the
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We’re getting a slight variation on the formula now. Other instances we’ve found have involved the protection of a GOP incumbent. Over in Cabarrus County, the American Conservative Fund is
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