The 2020 election is over. Thankfully and finally. Maybe. Not everyone is happy, and the process may not be perfect, but it works better than any alternative. Before I close my notebook on what may very well be the most important election of our lifetime — at least for now — here are some parting...
About 41% of voters in union households picked Trump this year. They went 40% for Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, and 39% for John McCain. Reagan won 44% in 1980 and 46% in 1984.
The State Board of Elections made it official. But not without a bit of controversy. The board certified results of the 2020 election during a virtual meeting Tuesday, Nov. 24. More than 5.5 million North Carolinians cast ballots. All three Democratic members and Republican Stacy “Four” Eggers voted to certify. “From the Grape Creek precinct...
North Carolina's two previous four-term House speakers both left the job with some controversy.
From the end of the Civil War through much of the 20th century, North Carolina effectively was a one-party state: Democratic. Democrats held control of the executive branch from 1901-1973. Republican Jim Holshouser interrupted the Democratic streak for four years and then the other Jims, Democrat Hunt and Republican Martin, resided in the Executive Mansion...
What most voters mean by “bringing the country together” is that we ought to stop reflexively and viciously questioning the motives, integrity, or intelligence of those with whom we disagree.
The early returns are in. So far, Chief Justice Cheri Beasley’s election protests have flopped. The Democratic incumbent is challenging the outcome of her race against Republican Justice Paul Newby. Newby led by 366 votes before Beasley filed formal protests to elections boards in 89 of the state’s 100 counties. She’s also asked for a...
Democratic judicial candidate Tim Gunther is disqualified from election after admitting to the Wake County Board of Elections he violated state law. But a remedy — which can’t be decided by the Wake board — hasn’t yet been prescribed. When Gunther filed as a Wake County District Court candidate in 2019, he told the Wake County...
The results are in, and voters selected Republican Catherine Truitt, chancellor of Western Governors University N.C., to be North Carolina’s new superintendent of public instruction. She defeated her Democratic opponent, UNC-Greensboro education professor Jen Mangrum, by around 148,000 votes. Truitt will replace Republican Mark Johnson, a one-term superintendent who failed to win the Republican nomination...
Editor’s note: The original version of this story mistakenly said six counties would flip from Democrat to Republican. Five counties will turn from Democrat to Republican, since Guilford County went from red to blue. The story has since been corrected. Republicans won a strategic victory on Election Day in North Carolina, claiming several formerly Democratic...
Fewer than 400 votes. That’s how much N.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby leads Chief Justice Cheri Beasley as county elections boards completed their canvasses earlier this week. The State Board of Elections website showed Newby, a Republican, leading the incumbent Democrat Beasley by 366 votes as of 11:48 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 17. With more...
