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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One of my county government moles encouraged me to attend the October 16 meeting of the board of commissioners — promising that it would be worth my while. Intrigued, I
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South Carolina, what are we going to do about the little guy? Y’all have done so well with your House delegation (Clyburn notwithstanding) and with Senator DeMint.You can’t do much
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Today’s episode of NC Spin needs to appear on DPI superintendent June Atkinson’s campaign report as an in-kind contribution. The show that bills itself as “Balanced Debate
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Listening to politicians making campaign speeches is tough — especially for two hours straight. But THAT is what your fearless blogger did for you Thursday night in Pinehurst at the
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