Likely general election voters in North Carolina list debates as their top source for reliable information about election candidates.
More Americans believe Republicans are better equipped to handle the economy, the top issue in Gallup's survey (24%). This measure is "highly predictive of election outcomes" dating back to 1948.
As the candidates spend next week preparing for the presidential race debate, we can only hope that both are prepared to lay out their real policy goals and beliefs to the American public.
If it is your position that, because Biden won't quit and it's too difficult to replace him, voters should still vote for Biden because he is not Donald Trump, then say so. Come on, Governor Cooper, call a press conference and say exactly that. I think it's craven and dangerous, but at least it is honest.
Don't expect to witness your favorite candidate in the same persona you see at rallies. Debates are usually a different audience and a different strategy.
Currently, officials in China have communicated to the world that their citizens are carefully “socialized” to fit the greater culture of the Chinese landscape. For instance, the Uyghur Muslim people, who have staunchly resisted Chinese culture and philosophy, have been targets of China’s “socialization.” When the world decided to look deeper into the “socialization” program,...
If you made it through the dull Ted Budd and Cheri Beasley Senate debate, pat yourself on the back. You are more engaged than most saner people voting in North Carolina who missed it. It was a snooze fest; at least, that’s what I was told by nearly everyone who watched. The truth is, in...
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s life is shaped by financial hardship, family life, trains, churches, the military, and even professional wrestling. In other words, Robinson is an ordinary guy. Many political autobiographies are trite or even dreadful, but “We are the Majority!” offers much more than platitudes. His book provides interesting stories of personal failure and...
The only organ to which secular progressive political activists make little appeal these days—one could consider it America’s only understimulated organ—is the cerebrum. The brain. But when progressives do appeal to voters’ rationality, they wisely do so more primarily through story than through argument. Yet, unfortunately, the progressive story is a “story” not only in...
Repairing roads damaged by hurricanes and paying property owners harmed by the Map Act have been costly, but they do not fully explain the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s cash crunch.
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