The Daily Haymaker

Civitas poll should set off alarm bells for NCGOP, McCrory campaign

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The latest poll by North Carolina’s Civitas Institute shows Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton (D) trailing GOP candidate, and former Charlotte mayor, Pat McCrory (R)

Red Light, Green Light: The Pilot labels Democrat’s “mistake” a GOP dirty trick

Posted on July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Democrat machine operatives who own — and control the editorial content of — our thrice-weekly Emmy Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated local newspaper are at it again: stretching the truth and

Moore GOP chairman out in left field on runoff elections

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Bob Levy is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. He’s been a real peacemaker here in Moore County since Richard Morgan and his cronies were pretty much deposed

From the ‘It Needed to Be Said’ Department, Jones Street division …

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Well, the honorables on Jones Street hashed it out over global warming this week, and the arrogance and elitism of the granolas — still smarting from their banishment to

Happy Birthday America !!!!

Posted on July 4, 2012February 18, 2018 by Brant Clifton

11th district’s Hayden Rogers (D) FOR and AGAINST ObamaCare

Posted on July 4, 2012July 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

In 2004, Democrat presidential nominee John F. Kerry told us he was FOR the war on terror BEFORE he was against it. Got that? Good. In 2012, 11th

They came. They saw. They overrode.

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Low-level staffers in the governor’s office are likely scrambling today to ID the truck that ran over their boss lady — THREE TIMES — this week.

ObamaCare & Pat McCrory: crickets and deafening silence (Here, have another fundraising letter.)

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

GOP governors across the nation are standing firm against ObamaCare in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling — pledging not to implement it or enforce it at the

Huckabee endorsement of Hudson in NC-08 part of larger spat between Huckabee and The Club for Growth

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The News & Observer did a great job today taking dictation — dutifully transcribing a release from Republican Richard Hudson’s congressional campaign office. Hudson and Scott Keadle face

More on AFP & Renee

Posted on July 2, 2012July 2, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, some well-connected readers of this site voiced their displeasure to Americans For Prosperity’s North Carolina state chapter for their embrace of congresswoman Marie Antoinette Ellmers.™ AFP-NC had a big