The Daily Haymaker

#NCSEN: Rasmussen says Hagan 45, Tillis 39

Posted on September 12, 2014September 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

When a firm known for being a Karl Rove shill says one of Karl’s guys is down, you know things are getting interesting. Rasmussen Reports released a survey today showing

Civitas Poll: Unaffiliateds go BIG for Hagan, slightly for NCGA Democrats

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Roughly 27 percent of the electorate in North Carolina is not affilated with either of the three major parties. The Civitas Institute in Raleigh decided to take the political temperature

NC-06: Walker poll shows him up big over Democrat Fjeld

Posted on September 11, 2014September 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The campaign of GOP nominee Mark Walker has released a poll it commissioned showing their man up 54-31 over Democrat nominee Laura Fjeld. The winner in November will replace long-time

#NCGA: Skip Stam hits the road in support of tolls

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

State legislator Skip Stam (R), the speaker pro tem and a close ally of speaker / US senator wannabe Thom Tillis, is hitting the rubber chicken circuit to sermonize on

#NCSEN: Democrat poll says Hagan 48, Tillis 45 (Um, Haugh ????)

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee has released a head-to-head matchup poll showing incumbent senator Kay Hagan leading her challenger Thom Tillis 48-45. (There is a 3.5 percent margin of error.

#NCSEN: The BIG FAT education spending LIE

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I believe South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson would like to have a word with the Hagan campaign, state and national Democrats, and their lackeys in the drive-by media. We’re getting

#NCSEN: Polls, Polls, Polls and Polls.

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Tillis campaign pollster Glen Bolger, whose firm is known by the unfortunate acronym POS, has released a poll showing the 2014 US Senate race all knotted up at 44 percent

Digging into North Carolina’s jobs situation

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

That unemployment rate the drive-bys regularly quote to you is actually a percentage of the “workforce.” In economics, the “workforce” is defined as that portion of the population, of working

State sea level panel. ANOTHER departure. STILL BIASED. STILL not filling vacancies.

Posted on September 6, 2014September 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve posted previously about this Charlie Foxtrot HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE. Here’s some background from a drive-by. Basically, this panel submitted a report claiming that the sea

#NCSEN: That’s MADAME Sock Puppet to YOU, peasant.

Posted on September 5, 2014September 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The drive-bys and their friends on the port side of the political spectrum are spewing outrage over Republican Thom Tillis’s references to North Carolina’s incumbent Democrat US Senator as “Kay” during