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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

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Media, Politics
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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

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Media, Moore County, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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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,

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Campaign 2012, Politics
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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

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Campaign 2012, Media, Politics

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

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

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

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics, Republicans

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

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Campaign 2012, Media, Mitt Romney, Politics

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

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Moore County manager mumbles his way through some serious CYA

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

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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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Lindsey Graham BEGGING for a primary challenge

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

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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Campaign 2012, Congress, Media, Politics, South Carolina, Uncategorized
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