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Meanwhile, over at the early voting polls …

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A friend who was working the early voting polls for the GOP checked in with me to share a recent experience at an area polling place. He said

The importance of those Council of State races

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Brant Clifton

During big election years, people get excited about the candidates for president, governor, and Congress. But when the conversation turns to races like Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor, and

Are Richard Hudson and the GOP Establishment selling us a bill of goods?

Posted on October 21, 2012October 21, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Richard Hudson, the GOP nominee for the 8th congressional district, has been spending a lot of time raising questions about incumbent Larry Kissell’s character. We’ve done some

NCFEF: Ellmers posting weak fundraising numbers

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The NC Free Enterprise Foundation, a non-partisan pro-business group, has completed an analysis of third quarter fundraising for the state’s congressional candidates. Here’s what they found

Early voting UP across North Carolina from 2008

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

GOP operatives have all admitted they learned a painful lesson in 2008. The Democrats beat their pants off in terms of getting-out-the-vote. According to some relatively real-time data from Civitas,

Pants on Fire: The N&O keeps the hits (against GOP candidates) coming

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson wants to have a word with N&O staff writer Austin Baird. It’s pretty typical for the media to wait until the weeks before a big

Source: McSwain dodged a bullet Tuesday night

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Moore County commissioners showed up at their Tuesday night meeting expecting to discuss and vote on a resolution calling for a formal investigation into county manager Cary McSwain’s

Lumbee Tribe political machine splitting its ticket this year?

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Robeson County is about as yellow-dog Democrat as you can get. In 1972, while George McGovern was getting destroyed nationwide by Richard Nixon – he was winning comfortably in Robeson

Debate Night Follies

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Once again, we got treated to a double-header of televised political brilliance. The opener featured major party gubernatorial nominees Walter Dalton and Pat McCrory. (Of

Union Thugs Trying to Rough Up Dan Forest

Posted on October 17, 2012October 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

You can get a really good sense of where things stand during the last month of an election cycle. In a close race, the candidate feeling the most endangered tends