Exit polls offer useful insights
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.
If we want some semblance of normalcy to return to our economy, our communities, our households, and our personal freedoms, we cannot afford merely to assume vaccination rates will be high.
About 41% of voters in union households picked Trump this year. They went 40% for Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, and 39% for John McCain. Reagan won 44% in 1980 and 46% in 1984.
The number of Republican-controlled county commissions jumped from 56 to 61 this year. However, slightly more than half North Carolinians now live in counties with Democratic boards.
“Explanations exist, they have existed for all time,” the social critic H.L. Mencken once wrote. “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.”
Democrats have a message of change, resources, and in some cases talented candidates to deliver the message. But to an increasingly optimistic electorate, it may end up sounding off-key.
During the Bush presidency, Republicans were more supportive of free-trade agreements than Democrats were. The opposite was true during the Obama presidency.
After being “underwater” for quite a while, Obama’s approval ratings began moving into positive territory several months ago as it became clear that either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump would likely succeed him.
RALEIGH — You know the mainstream media’s hatred of George W. Bush is beyond the pale when national reporters, who are essentially egos with ears, thumb their noses at the Pulitzer Prize that has been waiting to be plucked from l’affaire Wilson-Plame.
Sunday's Azores summit brought together the leaders of the "coalition of the willing" and signaled the beginning of Gulf War II.
North Carolina Republicans are ready to jump on a bandwagon to a big victory in the November elections. But they should keep in mind who the driver of that wagon is – George W. Bush – and watch out for danger signs.
Republicans think they have a good chance of keeping the U.S. House in November and taking control of the U.S. Senate and some state legislative chambers, including North Carolina's. But they won't get there with a languid economy.