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NC Campaign 2012: Don’t cry for the edu-crats

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

During the debate over the 2011 state budget, we heard a lot of screaming, crying, moaning and complaining from Democrats and their NCAE allies about alleged draconian budget cuts.  The

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Campaign 2012, Economy, Education, Media, Moore County, NC State Government, Politics
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NC Campaign 2012: things getting a little testy in the insurance commissioner race

Posted on August 9, 2012August 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I never imagined that we’d be dealing with mud-slinging and controversy in the race for NC Insurance Commissioner. Right out of the general election starting gate, incumbent Democrat Wayne Goodwin

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Campaign 2012, Media, Politics
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Moore County: Unaffiliated voter registrations pulling even with Democrats

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    Carolina Transparency’s web site does a great job of tracking voter registration trends in North Carolina.  You can use the site to track  trends by county based on

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

You want ’em. We got ’em. POLLS !!!!!!!!!!

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Public Policy Polling has put out their latest numbers on the statewide races in North Carolina.  In the governor’s race, their numbers are tracking pretty close to what Rasmussen Reports

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Campaign 2012, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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Tim Lea & the gays: #HATING on fast food

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I don’t know what it is about fast food.  The gays are in the midst of an attack on Chick-fil-A.  Moore County commissioner Tim Lea is going all-out against Bojangles’

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Moore County-Robbins water deal looking more and more like a long-shot

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

My #1 mole in the Moore county bureaucracy tipped me off that commissioners Craig Kennedy and Nick Picerno recently connected with state Senator Jerry Tillman in Raleigh for a fact-finding

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Poll numbers for NC GOV: McCrory continues slide, Dalton climbs

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Things are really tightening up in the race for North Carolina governor.   Pat McCrory, the former mayor of Charlotte and a renowned moderate, is the GOP standard bearer against

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Campaign 2012, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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Media: Racist? Then you MUST be ‘right-wing.’

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  Don’t get me wrong.  The murderous rampage in Wisconsin was absolutely disgusting and evil and depraved.  Thank goodness the scum culprit was killed so we don’t have to spend

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Campaign 2012, Media, Politics

Obama’s (and the Democrats’) problem personified

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

        We’re getting hit by polls in the mainstream media suggesting that Obama is leading Romney, or that the race is too-close-to-call. I had an eye-opening chat

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Campaign 2012, Media, Obama, Politics

Tennessee Democrats get a surprise in their US Senate primary

Posted on August 5, 2012August 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A man espousing conservative and libertarian views convincingly wins Tennessee’s Democrat US Senate primary,  and state Democrats are ready to go to court to invalidate the voters’ choice. The reason?

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Media, Politics
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