Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper leads Republican Michael Whatley 50% to 41% in a new RightCount-commissioned poll of North Carolina's open US Senate race. Cooper carrying unaffiliated voters by 15 points and leading in every region except Charlotte.
This $71 million investment is part of a much larger, $342 million nationwide strategy targeting key battleground Senate races like Ohio, Georgia, and Michigan.
North Carolinians deserve to know the truth about ranked-choice voting. It’s a system that upends the “one person, one vote” principle and replaces it with a partisan tool designed to skew elections for the left.
In the most recent of Carolina Journal’s Follow the Money print series, “Cooper’s Green Agenda’” Carolina Journal tracks donations from green energy groups to the campaigns of Gov. Roy Cooper and highlights his executive orders and other actions setting green energy policy as governor. Cooper’s staff communications director fired back on Twitter calling out what...
Citizens United, or Citizens United v. FEC, is a 2010 case in which the Supreme Court struck down limits to independent political expenditures on First Amendment freedom of speech grounds. The ruling didn’t affect lobbying activities and direct contributions to political parties and candidates that continue to be subject to regulation. It allowed individuals, corporations,...
This week's primary results yield interesting insights about the rest of the 2016 campaign.
Rather than jump to conclusions about the pay-to-play allegations, I will say at this point that North Carolina clearly needs a formal privatization office.
To say that a corporation does anything is really to say that a group of individuals, organized in some mutually agreeable fashion, is taking that action.
By the logic of the auction house, neither Art Pope nor any other Republican donor could have “bought” the 2010 legislative elections.
You are about to walk a mile, or perhaps several hundred miles, in the Republicans’ shoes. And they are about to try yours on for size.
As long as governments can dispense billions of dollars of other people’s money, groups will spend their own time and money trying to work the system to their benefit.
