Graig Meyer is, um, *interesting*. He’s running for his first full term (appointed October 2013) as a member of the North Carolina House. Meyer represents District 50 — which includes
Continue readingNate Silver of ESPN and the Five Thirty-Eight blog is showing the political fortunes of endangered Democrats in North Carolina and Colorado improving dramatically in recent weeks. On September 3,
Continue readingOh, the *good news* just keeps rolling in for the GOP campaign for North Carolina’s US Senate seat. Left-leaning Public Policy Polling surveyed 1,266 likely voters from September 11 -14.The margin
Continue readingWord is out among the national drive-bys that our Republican senator is likely to seek reelection in 2016. Burr himself gave that talk life in a recent interview with National
Continue readingUS wealth gap putting squeeze on state revenue. Yep. That’s the headline McClatchy slapped on a screed penned by someone at the AP with the title of “economics writer”: Income
Continue readingOne of our allies out there jogged our memory with a very helpful piece from The Daily Kos about the 2008 version of Kay Hagan: In the race to replace
Continue readingNorth Carolina drive-bys have got this interesting little trend going. They have political reporters who also write op-eds. Rob Christensen got it going. (When I was a drive-by, I did
Continue readingIt made me sick to my stomach to read about and hear about the arrest of Michael Speciale, Jr. this morning. First off — the allegations against him are horrific.
Continue readingANOTHER GOP-leaning pollster has released survey results showing US Senator Kay Hagan leading state House speaker Thom Tillis outside the margin of error. American Insights, a Republican-leaning North Carolina-based pollster,
Continue readingIn 2005, leftist writer Thomas Frank penned a tome called “What’s The Matter with Kansas?”. In 2014, there are probably a lot of people asking “What the hell is the
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