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Becoming Alabama? Hey, at least we’re not becoming CHARLOTTE.

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Prius-driving, low-T, latte-sipping NPR-swooning lefty-snobs at The Charlotte Observer, one of McClatchy’s many failing media holdings in The Carolinas, are aghast that this state might become more like — *GASP*

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#NCSEN: Only 45% of the white vote FOR Tillis?

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We posted earlier about the Fox News poll of this race.  Digging into the cross-tabs led us to discover a really interesting stat.  Hagan, the Democrat, is drawing 33 percent

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Bribes for Tolls?

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

There’s been quite a public uproar about toll roads being established in the Charlotte area.  Yet, government officials in the areas most affected by the proposed tolls are enthusiastically backing

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#NCSEN: Sabato says race “Leans Democrat,” Tillis “stuck”

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Political prognosticator, cable TV talking head, and UVa political scientist Larry Sabato is seeing things trending Kay Hagan’s way this year: Another week is down the drain in the race

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#NCSEN: Fox News says Hagan 41, Tillis 36

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I am willing to bet they are binging on Tums and Pepto-Bismol over at Tillis HQ.  ANOTHER GOP-leaning poll shows Hagan leading the US Senate race. Fox News surveyed  the main

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#NCSEN: When you can’t sell your ideas, scream “RACISM !!!!”

Posted on September 17, 2014September 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Well, that didn’t take long.   Mother Jones, the vanguard of leftist journalism, has jumped into the fray with an insinuation that Thom Tillis is a racist: […] In 1898,

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Thom Thillis Tholl Roads whipping up quite a thempest among Mecklenburg pols

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve written extensively about the controversy surrounding the hiring of a Spanish contractor to “manage” lanes on the soon-to-be widened section of I-77 in Northern Mecklenburg County.  State House speaker

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#NCSEN: Tillis in Texas?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

A friend of this site told me about an interesting encounter he had last week at baggage claim in the San Antonio Airport.  While waiting for his bags to come

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#NCSEN: The N&O goes off the rails on the minimum wage

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

It sure didn’t take long for The miserably-failing Raleigh branch of the McClatchy empire to return to form as propagandameister for all things left-of-center.  The N&O has released an unsigned

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#NCGA: JUST when you thought Chapel Hill couldn’t get any kookier along comes => THIS GUY.

Posted on September 16, 2014September 16, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Graig Meyer is, um, *interesting*.  He’s running for his first full term  (appointed October 2013) as a member of the North Carolina House.  Meyer represents District 50 — which includes

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