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Carolina Journal Poll shows improvement in voter optimism after 2024 election

Asked if they believe the U.S. is headed in the right or wrong track as a result of the general election, 48% said right track and 43% wrong track. That’s a 20 percentage point jump from September when just 27% of surveyed voters were right track and 63% said wrong track.

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Harris campaign cuts ad buys in North Carolina

According to ad tracking firm AdImpact, the Harris-Walz presidential campaign has changed much of its remaining ad spending in North Carolina in the last week of the election, pulling millions of dollars worth of ads from the major North Carolina media markets.

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New CJ poll shows NC races for president, governor tightening

Forty-three percent of voters said they would vote for former President Donald Trump, compared to 39% support for sitting President Joe Biden. That’s about a one percentage point drop from last month’s poll. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has the support of 7% of voters.

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Budd pulls ahead in new U.S. Senate GOP primary poll

U.S. Rep. Ted Budd now leads the pack in the Republican primary for the open U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina, according to a new Civitas Poll of likely GOP voters released Thursday, April 7. Budd won 32% support, compared to 21% support for former Gov. Pat McCrory and 7% for former U.S. Rep. Mark...

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N.C. unaffiliated voters souring on Biden, split on masks, vaccine

A new poll of North Carolina unaffiliated voters shows President Joe Biden is tanking with voters who claim no allegiance to any political party. Between August 13-15, 2021 Spry Strategies contacted nearly 500 households of registered, self-described unaffiliated voters. Voters were only included in the poll results if they also confirmed they were registered as...

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Governor vetoes ‘Putting N.C. Back to Work Act’

Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill Friday that would have ended $300 in extra weekly federal unemployment benefits in North Carolina. The bill also would have tightened job search requirements to continue collecting unemployment. North Carolina would have joined 25 other states in cutting off the federal unemployment supplement. Other states have cited labor shortages...

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GOP voters: ‘yes’ to school choice and ballot security, ‘no’ on Medicaid

Republican state legislators have the full backing of their voting base on three key issues now being debating at the North Carolina General Assembly. This is according to new survey results of likely 2022 GOP primary voters obtained exclusively by Carolina Journal. Large majorities of North Carolina Republican voters continue to back GOP efforts in...

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A large majority of likely voters would support right-to-work amendment, poll finds

The vast majority of respondents to a new John Locke Foundation poll of likely 2022 general election voters in North Carolina support the state’s right-to-work law and would support a right-to-work amendment to the N.C. Constitution. The result comes as North Carolina celebrates 74 years with the law on the books. As of March 18,...

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