As President Biden faces mounting questions about his ability to lead and govern due to his age and declining health, historic North Carolina US Senate campaigns across three decades show the perils and pitfalls these issues present at the moment and throughout history. 1992 It was my first election as a voter — November 1992. I...
North Carolina Democrats are frustrated. It’s not hard to see why. Since 2008, when Barack Obama narrowly won the state and Kay Hagan beat Elizabeth Dole by a more comfortable margin, Democrats have fought hard but lost every subsequent presidential and Senate race in the Tar Heel State. In 2010, Republicans won their first majorities...
This year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina is shaping up to be a highly competitive and expensive one — which should surprise no one who’s lived in our state or watched our politics for more than an instant. The John Locke Foundation’s just-released Civitas Poll has the Republican nominee, U.S. Rep. Ted Budd, and...
Swings of six percentage points or so between August and Election Day are entirely in keeping with the actual behavior of North Carolina’s electorate.
Gov. Roy Cooper has added a communications director whose name may be familiar to regular readers of Carolina Journal. Cooper selected Sadie Weiner, who worked for former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., and most recently was communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. She will oversee the governor’s press and communications office. While on...
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis and N.C. Gov.-elect Roy Cooper are among those who have sent public thoughts and prayers to the family of former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, who was hospitalized Thursday within an undisclosed illness. A family member said doctors have ruled out a heart attack and stroke, according to the News and Record...
Rick Henderson on hypothetical Burr v. Hagan matchup; Scott Moody on negative impact of potential Medicaid expansion; Peter Boettke on role of government in the economy; Cherie Yang on her escape from North Korea; Becki Gray on state budget priorities
I suppose if you thought Kay Hagan’s reelection campaign was a brilliant exercise in political rhetoric, you might try to reuse her talking points to win the political debates of 2015.
Rick Henderson on key political races; Joe Coletti on government efficiency; Jerry Ensminger on military families suing over Camp Lejeune water contamination; Chris Conover on risk of having no health insurance; Jenna Ashley Robinson on college athletics
Rick Henderson on races for Senate & Congress; Richard Burr on ObamaCare alternative; Susan Katzenelson on prison population projections; Jane Pinsky on need for redistricting reform; Roy Cordato on flawed economics of push to hike minimum wage
Rick Henderson on Carolina Journal election coverage plans; Beth Wood on audit of NC Tracks; Katherine Restrepo on impact of ObamaCare; Tom Thompson & Willow Kelly on rising coastal flood insurance rates; Jenna Ashley-Robinson on Pell Grant reform
