NC residents broadly oppose a president defying the Supreme Court, with majorities across party lines — including most Republicans — saying such action would violate the Constitution and affect their midterm vote.
Primary turnout shows Democrats with higher participation, while unaffiliated voters favored Democratic ballots, reversing a trend that dates back to 2010.
North Carolina has divided government. Its most powerful executive is the Democratic governor, Roy Cooper. Four of the seven justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court are also Democrats. But Republicans enjoy majorities in the General Assembly and Court of Appeals, and hold six of the 10 offices on the Council of State. The latter...
People connected to Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley are complaining to the national press that Democrat allies are not stepping up to the plate and spending outside money to lift her candidacy. But is Beasley playing possum? According to Dictionary.com, to play possum is to: To pretend to be dead, a trick used by...
news in the Tarheel state has nothing to do with the primary elections. As reported by Carolina Journal, the latest Civitas Poll show an absolute political crisis for North Carolina Democrats they are virtually powerless to address.
We are now about 15 months away from the 2022 general election, and six months into President Joe Biden’s term. The top 2022 political prizes in North Carolina include: The open U.S. Senate seat A 14th House seat plus likely one or two competitive U.S. House seats created by a new district map and population...
Conventional wisdom holds that the political party in the White House tends to lose seats in mid-term elections. Yet, 1994 turned into a proverbial bloodbath for Democrats. Tom Foley became the first U.S. House Speaker to lose his bid for re-election since the American Civil War. His defeat was part of a tidal wave election...
The outcome of North Carolina’s midterm elections will come down to candidate recruitment, fundraising, and messaging. Basic blocking and tackling.
People complaining that a closely split electorate fails to produce a closely split congressional delegation are taking issue with a basic element of our centuries-old electoral process.
In North Carolina’s 2018 midterm elections, Democrats underperformed in the congressional races and overperformed in state ones.
In the 12 midterm elections since 1970, the party not controlling the White House has gained an average of 11 seats in the North Carolina legislature.
