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#NCSEN: Rasmussen, Rove conspiring to create illusion of Tillis momentum?

Posted on August 7, 2014August 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

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.

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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Gov. Pat’s ”kinder and gentler” & bipartisan new budget director

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

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

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campaign 2014, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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Washington Post: GOP effort to take #NCSEN seat “problematic”

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

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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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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#NCSEN: ”What are they gonna do? Vote for Kay Hagan ???”

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

A friend of mine and loyal reader of this site — who also happens to be a political A-lister /celeb / newsmaker in Raleigh — passed on a pretty disturbing

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCSEN: late July Civitas poll has Hagan (D) 41, Tillis (R) 39, Haugh (L) 7

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Folks are still taking the political temperature, and things are still looking tight in the US Senate race.  Civitas polled 600 registered voters from July 28-29.    With a four

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Drive-bys: NCGOP wants to KILL you.

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The EPA is only 44 years old. The North Carolina Department of the Environment and Natural Resources is 43 years old.  The Earth is MILLIONS of years old.  Humans have

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campaign 2014, DENR, McClatchy, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCGA: Speaker Moffitt?

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I spoke with a handful of Republican House members this weekend just for the sake of taking the political temperature.  We’ve previously reported — thanks to inside information — that

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#NCGA: Drive-by disagreement on GOP “chaos”

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In this morning’s dispatch from Low-T state HQ, the shih-tzu is lamenting this “never-ending session” of the North Carolina General Assembly.  I am sure the fact that the session has

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Media, NC legislature

Is moving left politically REALLY “Kinder and Gentler?”

Posted on August 3, 2014August 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

My political life tracks back to the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign.  That’s where I cut my teeth in this game.  I was attracted to Bush because of his ties to my

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McClatchy, Media
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#NCGA: The abortion motorcycle rides again. (Um, sort of.)

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Brant Clifton

There’s a rather, um, neat trick perpetrated on Jones Street, Capitol Hill, and in legislative bodies all over the country. Find an issue that the chamber is split on, and

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Media
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