Progressives urge NC civil rights champion Anita Earls to run for U.S. Senate
In the state once believed to be Democrats’ best hope to win control of the US Senate in 2020, North Carolina Democrats are picking up the pieces after a loss party insiders deemed “surprising” even as...
View ArticleThe kids are alright: Undergrads seriously rocking the vote in North Carolina
Primary elections are always low-turnout affairs, and North Carolina’s early-voting run-up to Super Tuesday is no exception, with a turnout thus far of just 6.6% statewide.In a biennial orgy of...
View ArticleWho's behind the mystery GOP PAC meddling in NC Dems' Senate primary? Better...
The GOP is all about ‘shaping’ Democratic voters’ attitudes to its own liking this year. But recently its skullduggery has taken a mysterious new turn.Trump has, of course, long been toying with Bernie...
View ArticleRed-Boxing: how candidates evade campaign finance law without *quite*...
As lax as America’s campaign finance laws are, there’s at least one bright red line that no political operative can cross without fear of legal consequences: candidates and the PACs that support them...
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Are Dems about to fumble their single best chance to pick up a Senate seat?
Buying a $4 million ticket to nowhere is a luxury few of us can afford...except, it seems, Cal Cunningham’s backers in the NC-Sen Democratic primary to choose an opponent against Republican Sen. Thom...
View ArticleIn North Carolina, the people's candidate wins a game changing endorsement:...
Endorsements are the life blood of political campaigns — particularly in primary elections. For every one voter who invests serious time and effort in carefully studying the opposing candidates’...
View ArticleWashed up: How a candidate who swore off corporate PAC money still rakes it in
In 2020, a Democratic primary candidate promising not to accept corporate PAC money is the new normal. Some live up to their word. Others, not so much.North Carolina’s Democratic US Senate primary is...
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WTF? Report indicts centrist Dem senate candidate, but its headline smears...
Editorial bias against the black female progressive candidate in North Carolina’s Democratic senate primary, State Sen. Erica Smith, is on blatant display this morning in the state’s leading newspaper,...
View ArticleSanders voters might hold the key to a win for DSCC-snubbed Senate candidate,...
A new Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina offers few surprises, but a glimpse of a path to victory, for Democratic senate candidate Erica D. Smith, vying to take on Republican Sen. Thom...
View ArticleDSCC's anointed NC-Sen primary candidate dodges impeachment question. His...
Doing the apostle Simon Peter three better, last month NC-Sen primary candidate Cal Cunningham dodged the question of whether or not he supports impeachment not once, not three times, but six times in...
View ArticleNC-Sen Dem candidate "had a hard time" working with ICE against people...
On the heels of the article earlier this week on North Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidates J. Calvin Cunningham III and Erica D. Smith, a short video has emerged documenting Cunningham’s 2010...
View ArticleTo flip...or flop? Democrats brace for North Carolina's high-stakes US Senate...
North Carolina’s junior Republican senator, Thom Tillis (“a man with the backbone of a squid and a zealous supporter of President Definitely No Quid Pro Quo”), has the dubious honor of entering his...
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Right-wing Judicial Watch threatens lawsuits to force poll book purges in...
An article tucked deep in the back pages of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette triggered my spidey-sense this weekend.Conservative group warns county to clean up voter rollsThe conservative organization...
View ArticleSuper Tuesday's choice: Six reasons in North Carolina
In battleground North Carolina, Democrats face a defining moment a few weeks from today: the March 3rd primary. Its outcome will help determine the answers to the two most pressing political questions...
View ArticleIn North Carolina, an inspiring Black woman Senate candidate takes the lead
In battleground North Carolina, a political contest of historic proportions is taking shape – one that will help determine the names of both the next president and the next Senate majority leader. At...
View ArticleGoogle Alerts and the propaganda wars
Google Alerts is my poor-man’s LexisNexis. It’s Google’s free alerting service (via email) for news and other web content. I use it, for instance, to alert me daily to new news related to selected...
View Article'Raging Blue Grannies' dominating early voting in NC09's do-over election....
Something extraordinary is happening in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional district.Held since 1963 by Republicans (most recently Robert Pittenger), the district is in the midst of a do-over election...
View ArticleVictory! We stopped a Republican National Committee trojan malware op dead in...
Yesterday at EQV Analytics we published (and reprinted later here at Daily Kos) an exposé of the malware-riddled trojan horse website paid for and operated by the Republican National Committee:...
View ArticlePolitical Malware: How a GOP website disenfranchises North Carolina (and...
Reprinted from EQVAnalytics.com, with permissionGoing door-to-door to disenfranchise North Carolina absentee-by-mail voters is so 2018.Perhaps that's why this year the GOP has a web-based tool that...
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On cusp of historic election security vote, NC State Board of Elections falls...
If you’re a supporter of the “hand-marked paper ballots” movement, you should be keeping a close eye on increasingly bizarre election security developments in North Carolina right now.SWING STATE NORTH...
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