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Carolina voters are often polled
North Carolinians can easily diversify their survey diet, as we are well served by a stable of reputable pollsters who take the political temperature of our state on a regular basis.
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Facebook caught up in vilification of entrepreneurs, enterprises
I have found the recent demonization of Facebook and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg fascinating and revelatory. We have discovered that during the 2016 presidential campaign the social media giant played unwitting host to hundreds of Russian bots and fake accounts peddling misinformation about the candidates. It has also attracted bad publicity for allowing third parties to...
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Voters compare imperfect options
A new poll suggests that if the presidential election of 2016 were restaged in North Carolina, Trump would probably still win the state.
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Political ads remain key tool
During the homestretch, 70 percent of TV ads supporting Donald Trump were about policy, compared to only 25 percent of the ads supporting Hillary Clinton.
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A Trump realignment?
Many astute observers of politics believe President-elect Trump had a historic election in November. The facts on the ground would seem to confirm that. Trump received 306 electoral votes and shattered the “Blue Wall” by winning Democratic strongholds in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Add North Carolina and Florida to the mix, and you have...
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Liberals should rediscover federalism
Bashing the Electoral College may be therapeutic for liberal Democrats. But if they want to respond to the 2016 election in an effective way, they should rediscover the virtues of federalism.
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Trump, GOP seeking way to pick ‘electoral lock’
A unique candidate might be rewriting the equation of presidential electoral math.
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Time to check poll position
Hillary Clinton enjoys a slight edge in the most recent polls of North Carolina voters, while Sen. Richard Burr leads his Democratic opponent, former state Rep. Deborah Ross, by a wider margin.
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PARODY: Perdue Calls For Cancellation of 2016 Elections
Former Gov. Beverly Perdue, a Democrat, has been working privately with members of the state’s Republican General Assembly majority to cancel the 2016 elections, Carolina Journal has learned. It’s a revival of an idea Perdue first mentioned four years ago, as her single term as governor wound down. “I got a lot of grief...
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Hillary’s Election Would Be Obama’s Third Term
President Obama is at it again, issuing guidance to schools in the United States to ensure that transgender students be allowed to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity. His spokesman, Josh Earnest, has declared House Bill 2 a “civil rights” issue so the Obama administration had no choice but to step in and...
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Campaign dispatch, April 19, 2016: Elon Poll edition
• A new Elon University Poll of registered N.C. voters defies the conventional wisdom (and the media narrative) about House Bill 2: A near-majority (49 percent) said the state should not allow cities to mandate “ungendered” (my term) bathrooms, changing facilities, etc. 39 percent were OK with the infamous Charlotte ordinance. • Also in the...
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Campaign Unveiling Distinct Ideological Strains
Before the 1970s, presidential nominations were won in smoke-filled rooms as deals were cut between party bigwigs motivated by promises of appointments and federal largess for their states. After the New Deal, a technocratic Democrat invariably faced off against a patrician Republican in a battle of pragmatists fought in an America run under a complicit...
