DSCC'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 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...
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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 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...
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’...
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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 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...
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 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 ArticleProgressives 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...
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