Charlotte is at it again with its latest attempt to sow chaos into North Carolina politics. The effort should fall on deaf ears. In other words, don’t take the bait. Proponents of the city’s new anti-discrimination ordinance have not shown there is a prevailing reason for it in the first place. Is there a mass...
Analysts are turning their attention to the 2020 presidential election, and North Carolina will likely play a big part. The Civitas Institute, a conservative public policy organization, released a preview of its statewide poll Nov. 26 showing voters are split between favoring Republicans and Democrats in the presidential election. Harper Polling, on behalf of Civitas...
An appeal of a judge’s ruling requiring the fall election ballot to list Supreme Court candidate Chris Anglin as a Republican could threaten a key election deadline. Anglin’s campaign said he was served notice of the appeal Tuesday, Aug. 14, in response to the order issued a day earlier by Wake County Superior Court Judge...
Civitas Institute, a conservative public policy organization, released poll results showing the N.C. Supreme Court race election is neck and neck. Although filing for the judicial election hasn’t opened, Republican incumbent Barbara Jackson and Democratic challenger Anita Earls have made it clear they’re running for the state Supreme Court seat. Filing begins June 18, and...
A recent political campaign sheds light on factors that will shape 2016 races.
Electoral trends offer Republicans some good news.
RALEIGH — Watching the recent federal trial over election law changes in North Carolina, J. Christian Adams concluded. “The Obama administration and its partisan, big-money, racial-interest-group allies will stop at nothing to win elections.” Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, co-authored that comment in a column for National Review Online. Adams discussed his concerns about the ongoing challenges to North Carolina voting laws during a conversation with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Conservatives have plenty of reasons to be happy about the outcomes of elections across the United States in 2014. William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, recently helped a John Locke Foundation Headliner audience assess the elections’ significance. Kristol also discussed implications of the latest national election trends with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Republican margins in the 2014 elections were “significant,” suggesting they would have won many of the same victories in a presidential election year as they did during this midterm race. That’s the analysis Weekly Standard editor William Kristol offered to about 150 people Monday at a John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon.
Voters will decide whether the General Assembly should continue to pursue necessary reforms.
RALEIGH — Local factors are likely to play a larger role than statewide issues in this year’s N.C. legislative elections, and no one should expect a major shift in partisan control of either the state House or Senate. That’s the assessment from the head of a group that monitors statewide elections from a business perspective.
