Female Trouble: North Carolina's latest early voting stats
Insightus’s latest North Carolina early voting analysis is out, and with just two days to go until North Carolina’s Early Voting period begins (when Democrats will start to turn out in force),...
View ArticleEarly voting data: Forget Trump. Now down-ballot Republicans are toast, too
The best-loved cliche among candidates whose polling numbers are in the tank is “there’s only one poll that matters...” Specifically that would be the one completed biennially on the first Tuesday...
View ArticleSuper-Suppressors: 18 GOP-controlled boards of elections in North Carolina...
Insightus has been closely following, and reporting on, North Carolina early voting action for weeks now. And last week we first noticed something really strange: ballot-casting activity among the...
View ArticleWill North Carolina's unaffiliated voters sink or save the Dems this year?...
Unaffiliated voters (those who specify no party choice when they register to vote) are the fastest-growing segment of North Carolina’s electorate (indeed, very nearly the only growing segment). And...
View ArticleNorth Carolina black voters just made me cry...in a good way
Shaw University is the South’s oldest HBCU. Chavis Center is a voting site in a downtown Raleigh NC multiethnic neighborhood.I’m so freaking proud of these beautiful young people.xHalf of...
View ArticleStep down off the ledge; there's work to do. And in North Carolina we're...
It’s time to take stock, and even (hard as it might be to see through your tears right now) to count our blessings.The good news is that here in North Carolina we are well-positioned to kick ass and...
View Article"We have to do that for our brothers & sisters."
This is my guy (and no, this isn’t an advert for him): Graig Meyer (D), North Carolina state house Representative for District 50, serving the good people of true-blue Orange and Durham counties.One of...
View ArticleNC Gov. Pat McCrory's last stand (NC State Board of Elections appeal hearing...
xTL;DR? @PatMcCroryNC atty Tom ("Winter is coming") Stark questioning ace witness John Posthill at 11/16 Durham Bd of Elects hearing pic.twitter.com/qtGn6xmgK0â insightus (@InsightusOrg) November...
View ArticleL’état, c’est moi: North Carolina State Board of Elections set to commit...
Insightus will be live-blogging today’s latest in a continuing series of emergency meetings of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, all pushing toward the goal of installing losing candidate...
View Article'Potty Pat' McCrory lost a(nother) battle last night. Here's how he may still...
North Carolina’s bizarre politics are a journalist’s dream...and a friend-of-democracy’s nightmare.How anyone who doesn’t actually live in the Tar Heel State can even begin to understand what the hell...
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The New Order of the Heroes of America
BeninSC paid me a wonderful (albeit wholly undeserved) honor in last night’s Top Comments, spotlighting my work here at DKos tracking North Carolina’s election follies this year, as well as those of...
View ArticleDear America: we Tar Heels are so very, very sorry
(but if we had it to do over again, we would)According to the Raleigh News & Observer:Two days after conceding in the North Carolina gubernatorial race, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory plans to meet...
View ArticleIf the GOP packs the North Carolina Supreme Court this week, its alibi won't...
North Carolina is a state of paranoia these days...but of course just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.Having recently forgone a potential crisis with Gov. Pat McCrory’s...
View ArticleAll hell breaks loose: North Carolina GOP's coup d'état starts tomorrow
Friends of representative democracy have been waiting with bated breath through the past two days of the North Carolina General Assembly’s special session, called by outgoing Gov. Pat McPotty...
View ArticleAll hell breaks loose in North Carolina, Part II: As outrage mounts, so do...
As forecast yesterday (All hell breaks loose: North Carolina GOP’s coup d'état starts tomorrow), all hell did indeed break loose in the North Carolina General Assembly yesterday as Republican...
View ArticleAs calls to boycott North Carolina rise, here's what well-known brands stand...
Just as the 50 states are frequently referred to by Republicans as “America’s laboratories of democracy,” so today one state in particular — my own beloved North Carolina — is fast becoming the GOP’s...
View ArticleRepeal of North Carolina's bathroom bill leaves all sides unhappy. Welcome...
You know something has shifted tectonically (whether for better or worse) when the likes of the Family Values Coalition and the Human Rights Campaign see eye-to-eye on a piece of social...
View ArticleIn a darkening age, the question of the Maundy
In remembrance of me heal the sick In remembrance of me feed the poor In remembrance of me open the door And let your brother in, let him inIn remembrance of me search for truth In remembrance of me...
View ArticleAttention progressive wannabee number-crunchers
Not spam; just a PSA.Wish you too could Digit Like DocDawg? Then if you’re not yet aware of FollowTheMoney.org you should be. There’s more great money-in-politics data here than any 10 data scientists...
View ArticleTaking a byte out of voter suppression: How data science is fighting back
Voter suppression stories tend to be seasonal here at DKos. While we all get understandably exercised about the topic during election season itself, other issues typically command most of our attention...
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