If the GOP are able to bank all these votes and then follow that up by finding plenty of lower-propensity voters, it might make all the difference in a race that all polling shows to be a dead heat.
If post-Kennedy polls suddenly show Trump regaining comfortable leads in the swing states, Democrats will have nobody to blame but themselves.
Democratic state legislators decided to play politics with a good idea for government openness and transparency.
I can’t be the only one who loves a good debate. During election seasons past, I’d get as excited for a big debate as others do for a major sporting event. But there has been a sharp drop in candidates willing to participate in a classic, no-holds-barred verbal rumble. Starting at the top, former-President Donald...
Do North Carolina Democrats have any ability anymore to engage in actual lawmaking? Do they even have that desire? North Carolina’s elected Democrats, specifically those in the legislature, appear to be caught flat-footed after the 2022 election. Republicans won all six statewide judicial races, shifting the lean of the N.C. Supreme Court from 4 to...
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...
Every one of Cooper’s budgets has defunded Opportunity Scholarships for low-income students, claiming they “are wrong.
A broad swath of voters from the center-left to the center-right view Congress as a circus of ponderous pachyderms, braying jackasses, and clueless clowns.
As Virginians head to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 2 to elect a governor, the race is under the watchful eye of the nation, particularly those political pundits and strategists looking toward 2022. The race has not only tightened as it got closer, as Republican Glen Youngkin has pulled ahead of Democrat Terry McAuliffe by about...
Eleven years after Republicans captured control of both state legislative chambers in the 2010 election, few Democrats remain who have ever served in a majority. Now their strategy is simple; oppose the majority. Having so few Democrats with experience in governing is making cutting a budget deal particularly difficult this year. “It is always...
Gov. Roy Cooper could change the dynamics of next year’s legislative elections and create a legislative legacy if he does one thing; call Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and follow his example on the state budget. On July 8, Evers, the Democrat governor of the Badger State signed the Republican state legislature’s two-year budget. “Gov. Tony...
