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#NCSEN: Gov. Pat is on the phone. He likes Thom.

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I am hearing from quite a few folks who heard from Pat McCrory on their home telephones Sunday evening.  The governor was telling them how important it was to vote

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#ABT: THE rule for Tuesday

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

That’s it:  A-B-T.  Anybody But Tillis.   It’s an election year.  Ruling class politicians — and their drive by media lapdogs — are trying to tell us everything is FINE.

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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NCGOP: Meddling in primaries? Who? Us?

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Under the previous regime at NCGOP, we got complaints galore about meddling in Republican primaries by party staff.  The accusations even touched the then-party vice chairman.  We were promised things

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campaign 2014, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCSEN: Not behaving like a runaway winner

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The chattering classes in Raleigh and DC are already talking up a general election race between Thom Tillis and Kay Hagan.  Never mind that all signs point to a GOP

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: Rob’s (myopic) World

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

National political pundit Taegan Goddard devoted some column inches recently to “the dean of North Carolina politics” Rob Christensen.   Being called “the dean” isn’t necessarily suggesting excellence in your

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NC-06: A father & son-initiated food fight in the GOP primary?

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

For the first time in eons, there will not be anyone named Coble on the ballot for this congressional seat.  Howard Coble held an iron grip on this seat since

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Congress, Media
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The Ex-Im Bank: Corporate welfare at its, um, finest

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We wrote earlier about how the reauthorization of the big federal crony capitalism trough, aka The Export-Import Bank, is coming up after the primaries. Renee Ellmers voted for it and

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, Politics
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O-Care spending masks true economic nightmare

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

A new report out there suggests that spending on ObamaCare was about the only thing preventing our economy from showing negative economic growth for the first quarter of 2014.  Check

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, Obama, ObamaCare, Politics

FIVE ROOKIES? More changes in the air for NC congressional delegation?

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got three open seats this year — districts 6,7, and 12.  So, we’ll definitely be adding three newcomers to our state’s delegation to DC.  But serious election observers suggest close

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Moore County, Politics
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#NCSEN: The two faces of Thom

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Hollywood gave us “The Three Faces of Eve.”    This year, the GOP establishment is trying to force-feed us a real stinker called “The Two Faces of Thom.” Americans have a real

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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