Opinion
Advertising Makes a Difference
Challengers would have a hard time overcoming the inherent advantages of incumbency if they and their allies were unable to raise and spend money freely to communicate with voters.
Opinion
Stop Dwelling On The Past
We know they can attack each other’s records in public office. What would Kay Hagan or Thom Tillis do during the next six years as a U.S. senator?
Opinion
Give Polls a College Try
The Elon University poll leans slightly Democratic while the High Point University poll is among the few with no partisan bias at all.
Opinion
Regions Cast Different Votes
If Republican Thom Tillis were running for the U.S. Senate from the state of North Piedmont, he’d be clearly favored to defeat incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan.
Opinion
Candidates at Starting Line
In the Senate race, the average result is 44 percent for Hagan, 44 percent for Tillis, 4 percent for Haugh (or “other"), and 8 percent undecided.
Opinion
Fall Weather Hard to Forecast
If Republicans assume they are riding an inevitable wave to electoral triumph in 2014, they are fooling themselves.
Opinion
We’ve Got You Covered
It is conceivable that North Carolina’s match-up will be the nation’s most-expensive Senate race and one of its most competitive.
Opinion
The State of the Senate Race II
This week’s televised debates — one by Time Warner Cable News and the McClatchy newspapers, the other by WRAL-TV in Raleigh — have done little to influence the primary race.
Opinion
The State of the Senate Race
Both sides know very well that control of the U.S. Senate may well be determined in the Tar Heel State.
Opinion
Hagan Should Play Hamlet
Reid and Obama might tell Hagan no – in which case, she’d have an excellent excuse to oppose the final bill, should a conference committee send one back to the Senate floor.
Opinion
Not Enough Money for Everything
A leading state senator, defending the budget her chamber just approved, made the claim that "there wasn't enough money for everything." Perhaps it was regrets.
