Yep. That’s the way veteran political analyst Dan Balz characterizes the 2014 tussle between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean Haugh: […] Republicans need to win
Continue readingA friend of mine and loyal reader of this site — who also happens to be a political A-lister /celeb / newsmaker in Raleigh — passed on a pretty disturbing
Continue readingFolks are still taking the political temperature, and things are still looking tight in the US Senate race. Civitas polled 600 registered voters from July 28-29. With a four
Continue readingThe EPA is only 44 years old. The North Carolina Department of the Environment and Natural Resources is 43 years old. The Earth is MILLIONS of years old. Humans have
Continue readingI spoke with a handful of Republican House members this weekend just for the sake of taking the political temperature. We’ve previously reported — thanks to inside information — that
Continue readingIn this morning’s dispatch from Low-T state HQ, the shih-tzu is lamenting this “never-ending session” of the North Carolina General Assembly. I am sure the fact that the session has
Continue readingMy political life tracks back to the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign. That’s where I cut my teeth in this game. I was attracted to Bush because of his ties to my
Continue readingThere’s a rather, um, neat trick perpetrated on Jones Street, Capitol Hill, and in legislative bodies all over the country. Find an issue that the chamber is split on, and
Continue readingRankled. If the drive-bys can use that word and play that card, then — by God — so can I. WRAL’s ace cub reporter (and lunch-fetcher for Miz Leslie) Binky is
Continue readingEvery once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the
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