State Republicans and Democrats should hold onto their money until they know the Democratic nominee for president, Anna Beavon Gravely, executive director of N.C. Free Enterprise Foundation, said during a post-primary briefing. Former Vice President Joe Biden had a good night on Super Tuesday, winning 10 states, including North Carolina, but it’s not 100% certain...
The two major political parties’ traditional “brand attributes,” as a marketer might call them, appear to be deeply embedded in public perceptions.
For a party that promises to make the character and judgment of the current occupant of the White House the central theme of the 2020 election cycle, nominating Bernie Sanders would be a self-inflicted wound.
Even if Washington confiscated every dollar received by every American in excess of $500,000 a year, that would yield only $11.8 trillion in new revenue over the next decade — less than currently projected deficits.
To the extent voters wanted a check on Trump, they’ve already gotten it with a Democratic U.S. House, so our 2019 special congressional elections will play out in a very different context.
Mounting frustration with Washington helped give rise to the populist movements of 2016. Here in North Carolina, however, the political debate feels entirely different.
Over all the 17 publicly released polls taken since early February about the governor's race, Roy Cooper gets an average of 43 percent of the vote to Pat McCrory’s 42 percent.
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.
In a speech highlighting racial, ethnic, and gender-identity groups while pledging to introduce tax plans that redistribute wealth, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told a raucous audience of 2,200 supporters at Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium Friday that banks are “the most powerful, greedy group of people in the world,” and Hillary Clinton is beholden to corporate America. North Carolina...
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...
Rick Henderson on national reaction to CJ story about threat against federal prosecutor; John Hood on Gov. Jim Martin's legacy; Jeb Bush & Bernie Sanders talk taxes & economy; Andy Taylor on education politics; Terry Stoops on education & the state budget
