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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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#NCGA: Drive-by Binky rankled by big govt? Seriously?

Posted on August 2, 2014August 2, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Rankled.  If the drive-bys can use that word and play that card, then — by God — so can I. WRAL’s ace cub reporter (and lunch-fetcher for Miz Leslie) Binky  is

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Media

#NCGA: GOP House member laments his party’s back-track, retreat on tax policy

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Every once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the

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Media
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#NCSEN: ANOTHER poll (this time from conservatives) showing slim Hagan lead

Posted on August 1, 2014August 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Human Events, a longtime flagship publication of the American conservative movement, has partnered with Gravis Marketing to take the political temperature in The Tar Heel State.  They conducted a poll of

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCPOL: McHenry at Boehner’s right hand in amnesty cave

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Alabama senator Jeff Sessions is putting in a yeoman’s effort trying to derail the GOP cave-in on amnesty for illegal aliens. Sessions has been at the forefront of a grassroots campaign

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Congress, Media
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