Both former Governor Pat McCrory and Congressman Ted Budd can claim some positive momentum in their campaigns for U.S. Senate after 2nd quarter fundraising totals were posted Thursday, July 15. McCrory outperformed all his primary opponents in the North Carolina race, raising $1,237,000 from April through June of this year. The Budd for Senate campaign...
RALEIGH — Chaos in New Orleans grabbed the headlines, but Mississippi actually took a larger hit than Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast in 2005. Mississippi residents pulled together as a community and recovered as quickly as possible. Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour shared that message during a John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon Wednesday in Raleigh.
The premise of the book is that Republicanism = small-government conservatism = racism, and that the South became the perfect petri dish to incubate that filthy virus.
Skillful, well-funded campaigns on behalf of attractive candidates can convince even agitated or disaffected voters not to abandon the party in power.
RALEIGH — As the economic downturn grows longer and more severe, it’s hard to find any proposals to cut costs that can be taken completely off the table. Programs that were recently considered untouchable have now been placed under the budgetary microscope.
The 2007 political season in North Carolina may be about half-over, but around the country there remain quite a few electoral match-ups getting significant attention.
The 2007 cycle will feature gubernatorial races in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi. It’s quite possible that afterwards, the partisan balance won’t have shifted at all.
The Democrats mauled Republicans because big-government neoconservatives abandoned the conservative principles that brought them to power.
Guess who's at the wheel of John Kerry's campaign? Why, it's the cowardly Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Cary has a more conservative mayor, Raleigh a less conservative council, and Pat McCrory is still mayor of Charlotte. The real election news of 2003 is outside NC.
Most of the remaining political races of the 2003 season will be settled on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Here's a list of the most significant contests to look out for.
