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State Pollsters Earn Good Grades
According to the latest nationwide study by the website FiveThirtyEight.com, all of the pollsters that are most active in our state receive high marks for accuracy — either an A or a B+.
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Political Coin Lands On Its Edge
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.
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Primaries Expose Prediction Limits
If elections are hard to predict, just imagine how hard it is to make accurate predictions about systems that are even more complicated, such as an economy.
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Campaign dispatch, February 9, 2016
• The Club for Growth PAC, which is supporting Chatham County GOP Chairman Jim Duncan in the 2nd Congressional District primary, is on the air with this ad attacking incumbent Rep. Renee Ellmers. The free-market group will spend $400,000 on the ad buy. • A new High Point University Poll shows Hillary Clinton with a...
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People-Driven Versus Poll-Driven Candidates
The American electorate is looking for someone who is true to himself or herself and has the courage of their own convictions.
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Dems Take a Swing — and Miss
The Democratic effort was massive. It was expensive. It was brash, sometimes even to the point of being obnoxious. And it was, in the end, a failure.
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Party Labels Don’t Register
A fair reading of the data would be that a large share of unaffiliated voters in North Carolina — perhaps a third or more — are in practice Republican voters.
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Political Lessons in Humility
How could the NC electorate show no stronger level of support for Jim Hunt, a significant political figure since the 1970s, than they do for Scottie McCreery.
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Getting Out to the Polls
Careful students of recent NC politics have discovered that both Civitas and PPP produce survey results that are reliable, informative, predictive – and often similar.
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Should We Buy the Generic?
If you’re a Democrat, you loved 2006 and 2008. You’ll mourn 2010.
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Sometimes the news is not where it should be
When the news is buried, is it accidental or on purpose?
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And the Survey Says …
As should always be expected, NC poll respondents exhibited a mixture of views that one might consider conservative and liberal.
