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Legislature to move primary election back to June 7
Legislative Republicans will vote this week to delay the 2022 primary elections until June 7. The move was first reported by Carolina Journal over the MLK holiday weekend. Moving the primary date would ensure the General Assembly has time to redraw legislative and congressional district maps if ordered to do…
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Exit polls offer useful insights
Roy Cooper earned the votes of 8% of those who voted for Trump and Tillis. Dan Forest received only 2% of the votes of Biden and Cunningham supporters.
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Legislature may move primary election back to June
Legislative Republicans are likely to vote to delay North Carolina’s primary elections until June, multiple sources confirm to Carolina Journal. Moving the primary date would ensure the General Assembly has time to redraw legislative and congressional district maps if ordered to do so by the Democrat-controlled state Supreme Court. All…
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Computer generated maps do little to provide fairness in redistricting
When I was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, I investigated partisan gerrymandering and whether mathematical models produce fair congressional districts. Come to find out, it was a fool’s errand. I computed all kinds of maps using political data; however, the idea of fairness eluded me,…
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COVID is here to stay, so let’s start dealing with it
It’s well past time to try a different approach with COVID, and the Omicron variant in particular. The mainstream media must adjust its reporting, as well, to reflect reality and, well, to infuse some common sense. To stop reporting the rise in cases and hospitalizations, because both are…
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Teaching critical race theory is not civil rights history
Christianity remains the strongest anecdote to CRT because it stands against the materialist worldview that rejects the existence of God or that humans have souls and a destiny beyond this world.
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N.C. Dems ask court to eviscerate urban GOP efforts
Mecklenburg Republican Charlie Mulligan decided he could no longer wait. This week he announced his campaign for the newly drawn N.C. Senate District 41 in southern and eastern Mecklenburg County. It includes the GOP-leaning towns of Matthews and Mint Hill. “In Mecklenburg, not only can we do better, we deserve…
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Our relationship with big tech must change
If the “rules” of censorship and cancel-culture were applied consistently, it would be bad enough. But reasonable people know that rules which allow terrorists to tweet, but not former presidents and current members of Congress, something is inherently unfair.
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Our sky was never falling
A flock of progressive Chicken Littles spent the past decade warning that North Carolina’s legislature was ruining our economy and reputation by failing to “invest.”…