All the signs point to a blowout for Barack Obama in North Carolina.   More than 100,000 new voters have registered, including a surge of Democ...

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Governor Easley told top newspaper editors in a meeting with the leaders of the NC Press Association that the flap over his aides ordering state publi...

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Political junkies had poll whiplash this week.  The N&O/Charlotte Observer poll had Richard Moore leading Bev Perdue by six points.  The...

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This sounds like horror story from a 19th century workhouse, straight out of Dickens: a fourteen year old girl, suffering from mental illness, is lock...

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It’s like there are two Hillary Clintons.   There’s one I call ‘Hillary-the-mother.’  When she talks she sounds like a mother talking abou...

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There were two articles – one about Barack Obama and another I’ll tell you about in a moment – in the News and Observer the other day.   Here’s...

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Hillary Clinton’s new TV ad in North Carolina plays to her Clintonian strength:  I feel your pain.   It’s a deliberate contrast to Obama’s...

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For weeks there have been hints of bad blood between John Edwards and Barack Obama.  The rumors include a face-to-face blow-up between the two, a...

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Governor Easley’s charged right into the middle of the great email flap.   The Governor says he’s not convinced two notes made by state public ...

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The real news in The News & Observer/Charlotte Observer poll is that Hillary Clinton could pull an upset in North Carolina.   You are forgi...

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