(*SIGH*) Cooper by ELEVEN
I am even more convinced that the Raleigh GOP establishment has some kind of non-aggression pact with Roy Cooper.
Cooper is a target-rich environment. But the party’s campaigns against him have ranged from just bad to outlandishly incompetent. If we’re not careful, the GOPe will allow ol’ Roy to extend his decades-long election winning streak.
Harper Polling – working with Carolina Journal – has another poll out showing Cooper with 50 percent of the vote to Mike Whatley’s 39 percent. (600 likely voters, MOE 4 percent)
This extends a losing streak for Whatley going back to July 2025. I think there was a tie in one poll back then.
Carolina Journal is sooooo in the tank for the GOPe and NCGOPe. If they can’t put lipstick on this pig, NOBODY CAN. You know you’re in real trouble. Remember – Mark Robinson lost to Josh Stein by fourteen. Here in May, Whatley is down by eleven.
Political pros often tell you the real fight doesn’t start until after Labor Day. That gives Whatley and the GOP most of September, all of October, and a wee bit of November to try and dig out of this hole.
Some may say it’s too early to get worried. I say Whatley has one hell of a hole to climb out of. Cooper would have to have a NudeAfrica-scale mega-scandal. He’s been around a long time. No one has found it yet.
I swear this feels like watching my favorite team throw a game. You know we can do better — with both personnel and strategy. Off the top of my head, I can name at least three candidates who are more conservative and could do better against Cooper than Whatley. But – here – we – are.
Do you mean to tell me that going around to GOP audiences and telling people “I am a nice guy and I support Trump and I believe in prosperity” is not enough to get Mr. Whatley elected in a landslide? Gee, who could figure?
You answered your own question, when you wondered why any of the better candidates were crushed by the NCGOPe. By definition, a RINO would rather lose to a Democrat… than to a conservative.
Right back to the Forest campaign that was lackluster at best.
Then Stein got a shoo in cause Robinson (not enough space to list that disaster).
See the pattern. WEAK candidates and WEAK campaigns and NO enthusiasm = DEFEAT, again and again and again.
Lost the Council of State totally. NCGOP is a rock bottom.
It’s too exhausting fighting a two front war as a conservative against Dems and establishment RINOs, I’m glad I left the GOP. We at the North Carolina Constitution Party might be tiny but at least we’re united and don’t have to worry about any fifth columnists in our midst.
The only reason I haven’t left the GOP for the Constitution Party is ballot access.
That’s the beauty of it. The Constitution Party only gets on the ballot every four years and usually AFTER the GOP primary is over, so you can play in their primary while not being affiliated with them.