As The Pachyderm Turns …
Yes, my friends. It seems like we’ve got quite a soap opera brewing in Raleigh amongst the powers-that-be in the NCGOP. First, we hear from well-placed sources that operatives close
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Monkey Business Update: The plot thickens in Cabarrus?
Apparently, Charles Jeter (see comments at end of previous post) was not the only Republican legislator caught off guard by the local bill that simultaneously disarmed the Monroe city manager
Continue readingMonkey Business Update: Fletcher Hartsell & Cabarrus County
Can’t get your political shenanigans approved by being open, up front, and following the process? Go the sneaky route. That’s what has apparently happened on Jones Street regarding The Fletcher
Continue readingRNC says YES to cronyism, corporate welfare
Supposedly, the Republican Party is about free markets, individual liberty, and reaping the rewards of hard work. Yet, we can’t even seem to get the leaders of the party to
Continue readingWashington Post election model: 98 % chance Hagan wins reelection
The Post says Republicans will take the US Senate, but we — in North Carolina — can likely expect SIX MORE YEARS of Kay Hagan. The paper’s Election Lab predicts
Continue readingA request for our fans
We started this enterprise up about three years ago. We were frustrated about the growing number of low-information voters and the deceitful, incompetent drive-by media. We were worried about the
Continue reading#NCSEN: Relax, green people. Thom is ONE OF YOU!
The environmentalist crowd and their drive by media pals are up in arms about the fact there has been no deal in the legislature regarding storage and disposal of coal
Continue reading#NCSEN: Rasmussen, Rove conspiring to create illusion of Tillis momentum?
Rasmussen Reports — a polling firm with close ties to Karl Rove and the Bush political organization — has released their “latest” polling on the North Carolina US Senate race.
Continue readingGov. Pat’s ”kinder and gentler” & bipartisan new budget director
They’re dancing in the streets in Carrboro. The Great Satan — Art Pope — is stepping away from his state government role. There is a new feeling of hope and optimism
Continue readingWashington Post: GOP effort to take #NCSEN seat “problematic”
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
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