#ncpol: A straw poll ???? (You don’t say.)
You know what straw polls are like. EVERYBODY’S got one. Sometimes, they can be an interesting way to take the temperature of the electorate during a primary. The good
Continue readingYou know what straw polls are like. EVERYBODY’S got one. Sometimes, they can be an interesting way to take the temperature of the electorate during a primary. The good
Continue readingA frustrated parent. A frustrated teacher. And a frustrated education policy-maker. That pretty well sums up the field of Republican candidates for state education superintendent who made their way to
Continue readingIn 1988, as a wide-eyed, bushy-tailed College Republican, I was marching along with the Bush For President bandwagon. He had been my hero’s right-hand man for eight years. Surely, he’d
Continue readingWe’ve got a four-candidate primary race coming up on March 15th for the GOP nomination for US Senate. But, in some quarters, we’re being led to believe all we have
Continue readingFolks in flyover country are ANGRY. Raleigh knows it. And, apparently, DC has figured it out, too. The GOP-controlled House pushed through a bill they claimed repealed ObamaCare and defunded
Continue readingThis Bloomberg piece offers a peek at the profesional bio of majority leader Mitch McConnell that probably explains an awful lot: […] The Senate majority leader didn’t begin his career
Continue readingOn this site, and elsewhere, we spend a lot of time griping about Washington. You can’t fix the Democrats. We’ve wiped out all of them we possibly can in our
Continue readingIt’s pretty disturbing to hear that Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, and the rest of The Freedom Caucus are saying they would ‘look favorably’‘ upon the idea of speaker Paul Ryan. Let’s see
Continue readingIf you believe the drive-bys, it’s Walter Jones’s fault. It’s THAT GOP donor’s fault. It’s the Tea Party’s fault. Washington is all abuzz and in turmoil over a story that
Continue readingConservatives of the Tea Party ilk are being portrayed as unreasonable, petty children who turn over the gameboard and throw a fit when they don’t get their way. The establishmentarians
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