State Republicans believe their economic policies have helped North Carolina outperform most other states. They believe the voters largely agree. So expect more of the same.
The previous assumption that all or part of House Bill 2 was destined for destruction in federal court — which was never warranted in the first place — is now dissipating.
Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper has a lead of roughly 5,000 votes in his attempt to unseat incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, and Cooper was quick to claim victory Tuesday night, telling supporters, “We have won this race.” Not so fast, the governor’s team responded. “Currently, there are tens of thousands of outstanding absentee, military,...
Although ticket-splitting is far less common than it used to be, some North Carolinians continue to mix and match their votes in seemingly inexplicable ways.
Roy Cooper has essentially been running against Pat McCrory since 2013. So have many liberal activists and left-leaning media outlets. This has happened before.
Pat McCrory and Roy Cooper are now neck-and-neck. That’s an impressive comeback for an embattled Republican incumbent in the Year of Trump.
• The latest Elon University Poll suggests that House Bill 2 may not be the GOP-killer Democrats expected. While a near-majority of likely voters opposes the “bathroom bill” (49.5 percent against, 39.5 percent for), that opposition hasn’t doomed the re-election prospects of Gov. Pat McCrory. The incumbent Republican leads Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper 49 percent...
Pro-Roy Cooper ads had run nearly 9,000 times through Aug. 18, while pro-Pat McCrory ads had run about 6,000 times.
if North Carolina’s economy were relatively weak or its state finances were in a shambles, the Left would want the state’s political conversation to be about these issues.
• A new Elon University Poll of registered N.C. voters defies the conventional wisdom (and the media narrative) about House Bill 2: A near-majority (49 percent) said the state should not allow cities to mandate “ungendered” (my term) bathrooms, changing facilities, etc. 39 percent were OK with the infamous Charlotte ordinance. • Also in the...
This week's primary results yield interesting insights about the rest of the 2016 campaign.
