Since North Carolina politics became truly competitive, Democrats have tended to outperform their presidential nominees while Republicans have tended to underperform theirs.
Former Gov. Beverly Perdue, a Democrat, has been working privately with members of the state’s Republican General Assembly majority to cancel the 2016 elections, Carolina Journal has learned. It’s a revival of an idea Perdue first mentioned four years ago, as her single term as governor wound down. “I got a lot of grief...
According to the latest nationwide study by the website FiveThirtyEight.com, all of the pollsters that are most active in our state receive high marks for accuracy — either an A or a B+.
Under Democrats and Republicans alike, the federal government has run gigantic deficits — and will continue to run them for decades to come, primarily because of projected growth in entitlements.
Donald Trump is likely to win the Republican presidential nomination at or before the Cleveland nominating convention, and even though voters have soured on the candidates, the presidential race will drive turnout, a state Republican official says. “The mood is negative nationally. The mood is negative in the state,” Jim Burton, director of the state...
North Carolina’s unfunded liability for retiree health benefits is $27 billion. That’s about 123 percent of the entire General Fund budget.
Swing voters aren’t just interested in what your views are on particular issues. They are hungry for real leadership.
Rather than shift rising costs around by manipulating the prices apparent to consumers, today’s conservative reformers are interested in actually reducing those costs over time.
Standing alongside some of North Carolina’s most influential black elected officials at Hillside High School, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton promised Thursday to shred barriers to minority achievement, protect voting rights, and partner with schools to improve education. The former secretary of state and U.S. senator from New York vilified the National Rifle Association while calling for more...
The states of Iowa and North Carolina have at least two things in common. First, they are the nation’s top producers of hogs. Second, they are often overrun with politicians desperate to attract attention and votes. But I repeat myself. Now that we know the results of the Iowa caucuses, the 2016 political landscape is...
Even in the early 2000s, there were many members of Congress whose party affiliations differed from how their districts voted in presidential or other statewide elections. Now there are few.
