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A post-mortem on Tuesday. (Look, Ma. We’re goin’ backwards.)

Posted on November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 by Brant Clifton

For Republicans and conservatives across North Carolina, there was not a whole lot to cheer about Tuesday night.  Our side got out-hustled, out-strategized, out-raised, out-marketed.  *Out-EVERYTHINGED.* To satisfy the folks

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#ncga: The (NC House) $$$ chase thus far …

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Whoever has the most money is not always the best indicator of who will come out on top when the smoke clears at the end of election day. Factors like

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Advice for Tuesday …

Posted on November 4, 2018November 5, 2018 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been bombarded with questions from folks seeking recommendations about who to vote for on Tuesday.  Here’s the sample  ballot from my neck of the woods. It features local races

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Democrats filling NC Senate GOP campaign coffers

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Brant Clifton

He was one of the key money men behind a PAC that helped knock off a conservative legislator and facilitate a leftist takeover of Lee County a few years ago.

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Key figure in Easley scandals cuts big check to NC Senate GOPers

Posted on November 3, 2018November 3, 2018 by Brant Clifton

A name that popped up a lot amid reporting on scandals surrounding then-governor Mike Easley is now popping up on a state Republican campaign report. There was the issue of

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NC PolicyWatch tries to burn Folwell over Cowell’s sleight-of-hand

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Chris Fitzsimon’s comedy team never passes up an opportunity to spit the word ‘BIGOT’ at a conservative.  This time, the lucky recipient  of Team Chris’s golden spittle is state treasurer

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#ncga: $peaker Timmy, very expen$ive. (And under review?)

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Yes, it’s becoming more and more clear that the leader of the “conservative revolution” is making a KILLING off of the taxpayers.  Here’s the latest: Seven months ago, we began

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#ncga: Smearing Mr. Bishop.

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Brant Clifton

State senator Dan Bishop (R-Mecklenburg)  is one of the nicest, most integrity-laden politicians we know of in contemporary North Carolina politics.  That’s why the hit piece from  the UK Daily

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#ncga: Steinburg basketball tourney ONE HOT MESS

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Once again, we have mail. We’ve covered state Rep. Bob Steinburg’s venture into sports promotion — funded by Currituck County tax dollars — pretty extensively.  This time we have a

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A NCGOP surrender on the Supreme Court?

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Brant Clifton

The NCGOP is in real danger of going 0 for 2 in Supreme Court races during the Hayes-Woodhouse era.  (They’re already 0 for 1 in gubernatorial races.) It wasn’t long

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