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Facebook debate on primary meddling pits blogger vs. Thom Tillis

Posted on July 16, 2012July 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    What started out as a simple  get-out-the-vote message on Facebook from state House speaker Thom Tillis turned into a no-holds barred debate on the merits of the Raleigh

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Two more days to vote in the runoffs !!!!!

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    Democrats AND Republicans have stuff to vote for in these current runoff races in North Carolina.  There is a Democrat runoff for Labor Commissioner. ( Not very sexy,

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Study sheds more light on Ellmers’s performance in Congress

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  Govtrack.us is a non-partisan web site devoted to the study of Congress and its legislative process.   It also has on-going scatter diagram studies tracking Members based on the

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Media, Moore County, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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The plot thickens in NC House District 6 race?

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The race for an open Outer Banks legislative seat has had more twists and turns and intrigue  than your typical daytime soap opera. The May GOP primary race featured three

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McNeill surfaces in hunt for Brubaker replacement

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      The Randolph County GOP’s vice chairman’s name has popped up as a leading contender to replace former House Speaker Harold Brubaker — who resigned from the legislature

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What happened to the ‘MYOB’ rule in party primaries?

Posted on July 13, 2012July 13, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      I learned a lot about what I know about politics from my late grandfather — who was a political boss in southeastern North Carolina for decades. I’ll

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics

Brubaker: SO LONG, SUCKERS!

Posted on July 13, 2012July 13, 2012 by Brant Clifton

“Let the door knob hit you where the Good Lord split you!” — George Jefferson      The mainstream media was full of glowing tributes to former House Speaker and

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Uncategorized
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Putting 2012 NC GOV polling in perspective: (A libertarian leak for the NCGOP?)

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  The latest polling from Democrat pollster Public Policy Polling finds Republican Pat McCrory leading Democrat Walter Dalton 43% to 34% with libertarian Barbara Howe drawing 9 percent.  That leaves

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Campaign 2012, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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N&O mocks GOP secretary of state candidates, but is silent on Elaine’s ‘Occupy’ fetish

Posted on July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

        Under The Dome has an item today mocking GOP Secretary of State candidates Ed Goodwin and Kenn Gardner’s  invocation of George Soros’s name in a recent

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Campaign 2012, Media, Politics
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N&O fact-checked on fracking by reader & WRAL

Posted on July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  Fracking has been legalized by the legislature.  But the professional left and their transcriptionists at The N&O are still trying to scare the hell out of the ‘great unwashed’

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Campaign 2012, DENR, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics

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