Tag: media

Tillis and that rating from FiveThirtyEight.com

Posted on June 15, 2019June 15, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Ninety-three percent! Ninety-five percent! The Tillis campaign eagerly throws those numbers out as a way of “proving” how conservative their man is. Those figures actually come from

#ncpol: Walker backs out of US Senate run (for the second time now, I think)

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Brant Clifton

The fracas at the House Republican Caucus meeting kind of hinted that this was coming. The Club For Growth was pushing hard for him, but ‘Public Official A’ had

NC-09: Look out. G.I. Ginger and his Chinese solar panels are getting miffed.

Posted on June 13, 2019June 13, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It appears the Left’s wonder boy has found one more opportunity to tell us how smart he is: Solar investments by a company co-owned by Democrat Dan McCready are

Thomas Milhaus Tillis?

Posted on June 13, 2019June 13, 2019 by Brant Clifton

We all remember that Richard Milhaus Nixon — on his way out the door — had a hell of a reputation for dirty tricks and skullduggery. He operated quite

NC-03: National Tea Party leaders endorse Greg Murphy

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Mark Meadows and The House Freedom Caucus have given a thumbs up to the Greenville physician. Now it appears one of the nation’s more prominent Tea Party leadership

NC-09: Bishop says Meck sheriff needs to go, dept needs to cooperate with ICE

Posted on June 12, 2019June 12, 2019 by Brant Clifton

State senator Dan Bishop, GOP nominee for the Ninth Congressional District, is laying down the law with the Mecklenburg County sheriff: Republican state Sen. Dan Bishop on Tuesday

From the mouths of lawyers ….

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Here’s your recently departed state elections board counsel: He could almost be talking about that recently completed charlie foxtrot in Concord.

Former NCGOP ED: criminal charge dropped, but out of a job

Posted on June 9, 2019June 9, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I don’t quite know HOW we missed this one about Dallas’s predecessor when it broke. (Of course, we’ve been a wee bit busy lately): Todd Poole, a

The NCGOP 2019 convention: The decline and fall of a political party.

Posted on June 8, 2019June 8, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It had all the chaos of the Venezuelan economy (and every bit of the integrity of that country’s elections). But — once again — the crowd that gave us

#hayesscandal: The Defendant, a “distraction”?

Posted on June 6, 2019June 6, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Once again, somnambulant Jim Morrill has the story wrong: *Doesn’t want to be a distraction. How freakin’ thoughtful.* Also, he’s not Ex. He’s STILL the chairman.