Below are some stories that caught my attention this week. The last two are probably the most interesting from a cultural perspective. One story has to do with the massive shift in journalism, in which many in the media now protect the power structure over the little guy (or the working class) to empowered mobs...
Roy Cooper earned the votes of 8% of those who voted for Trump and Tillis. Dan Forest received only 2% of the votes of Biden and Cunningham supporters.
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.
During the homestretch, 70 percent of TV ads supporting Donald Trump were about policy, compared to only 25 percent of the ads supporting Hillary Clinton.
Since North Carolina politics became truly competitive, Democrats have tended to outperform their presidential nominees while Republicans have tended to underperform theirs.
After a certain point, raising and spending more money on TV ads doesn’t seem to help candidates very much. That's why they're returning to grass-roots campaigning.
John Hood on Mitt Romney's 47% comment; Roy Cordato & Jim Rogers on green-energy policies; Rick Henderson on CJ's role in journalism; legislators on need to scrutinize high-dollar contracted services; Jane Shaw on Holden Thorpe's legacy
While increasing dependency on government is a very real problem, it cannot be measured effectively by annual income-tax statistics.
The Republican presidential contest might be running contemporaneously with the NCAA basketball tournament at the moment, but the two sports have little in common.
Many GOP politicians wanted Romney at the top of the ticket rather than Santorum or Gingrich because they thought he posed less of a risk to their own electoral prospects.
Any political shorthand that has the effect of equating the ideological positions of Mitt Romney and Ron Paul is a political shorthand with severe limitations.
