Memo to Governor McCrory: Heed Gary’s advice, remember Jim Martin
The political establishment — and the state political media — are coming around to the realization that, barring the discovery of a dead girl or a live boy in the
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Category: Campaign 2012
NCGOP vice chair King: “Goldman? Malone? I see nothing! I know nothing!”
What’s been bouncing around the political gossip network for a few years has FINALLY made it to the pages of The N&O. The NCGOP establishment bent over backwards to force
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NC elections chief “Big Boy” Bartlett keeps baffling us with BS
The folks at Civitas did a great job of pointing out how many 112 year old North Carolina voters have cast ballots so far during
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NC Dems and their muddled definition of ‘extremism’
Things are so bad for The North Carolina Democratic Party that Linda Coleman, nominee for lieutenant governor, is their last best hope for something to celebrate on
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Meanwhile, over at the early voting polls …
A friend who was working the early voting polls for the GOP checked in with me to share a recent experience at an area polling place. He said
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The importance of those Council of State races
During big election years, people get excited about the candidates for president, governor, and Congress. But when the conversation turns to races like Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor, and
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Are Richard Hudson and the GOP Establishment selling us a bill of goods?
Richard Hudson, the GOP nominee for the 8th congressional district, has been spending a lot of time raising questions about incumbent Larry Kissell’s character. We’ve done some
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NCFEF: Ellmers posting weak fundraising numbers
The NC Free Enterprise Foundation, a non-partisan pro-business group, has completed an analysis of third quarter fundraising for the state’s congressional candidates. Here’s what they found
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Early voting UP across North Carolina from 2008
GOP operatives have all admitted they learned a painful lesson in 2008. The Democrats beat their pants off in terms of getting-out-the-vote. According to some relatively real-time data from Civitas,
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Pants on Fire: The N&O keeps the hits (against GOP candidates) coming
South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson wants to have a word with N&O staff writer Austin Baird. It’s pretty typical for the media to wait until the weeks before a big
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