If you subtract voter preference for Democrats from voter preference for Republicans, only nine states — including North Carolina — have values no greater than two percentage points.
Rather than extrapolating a few statistical trends into the future and then waiting for political prizes to fall into their laps, successful candidates will take nothing for granted.
The presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump “is Clinton’s to lose at this point,” and Democratic state Attorney General Roy Cooper “has lost the advantage he had in the past couple of weeks” against Republican incumbent Gov. Pat McCrory, according to political analyst Joe Stewart. Incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr...
Third party presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are reaping history-making poll numbers. But those thinking this could be a watershed year for alternative candidates because so many voters are disaffected by Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are likely to be disappointed, one national pollster says. “You do see a much...
• There won’t be any “grand bargain” on House Bill 2 after all: Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts announced this morning that the Charlotte City Council would not consider a measure repealing the city ordinance that prompted H.B. 2. Had the council voted to repeal, then the General Assembly might have returned for a special session...
Pro-Roy Cooper ads had run nearly 9,000 times through Aug. 18, while pro-Pat McCrory ads had run about 6,000 times.
Hillary Clinton enjoys a slight edge in the most recent polls of North Carolina voters, while Sen. Richard Burr leads his Democratic opponent, former state Rep. Deborah Ross, by a wider margin.
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.
Under Democrats and Republicans alike, the federal government has run gigantic deficits — and will continue to run them for decades to come, primarily because of projected growth in entitlements.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won easily against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary, while casino mogul Donald Trump staved off a late surge by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to claim victory in the GOP presidential contest. With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton bested Sanders 55 percent to 41 percent,...
DURHAM — A little-viewed video is not the provocation for anti-American violence in the Middle East, and America should shut down its foreign embassies and bring its ambassadors home, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson said Thursday at Duke University.
