Posts by Carter Wrenn
Quarantines
President Obama may have the most brilliant strategy on earth to defeat Ebola but, on the other hand, he may go down in history as the first head of a government to encourage thousands of people (doctors and nurses) to visit a plague zone and then return home to meld back into the population without,…
Read MoreFlip a Coin?
Thom Tillis said Kay Hagan voted for Obama’s Stimulus Bill then her husband’s company got $390,000 in Stimulus Funds as a pay-off. And Hagan fired back Tillis (as Speaker) put a toll road near Charlotte in exchange for $25,000 in campaign contributions and sold three seats on the UNC Board of Governors for $75,000 in…
Read MoreNot a Ticket Splitter
A pollster will usually ask voters: Would you say you 1) Always vote Democratic, 2) Usually vote Democratic, 3) Always vote Republican, 4) Usually vote Republican or 5) would you say you split your ticket and vote for about as many Republicans as Democrats? Down at the Editorial Board (not in the news room)…
Read MoreMata Hari
Eric pointed to the word ‘backlash’ and said, They put a picture of a Black minister, sneering, beneath a headline saying ‘backlash’ then quote the ACLU as saying Black preachers want to punish gay people because of who they love. A trio of amenable grunts rose from the end of the table then out…
Read MoreThe Next Jonas Salk
Kaci Hickox was mad as hops – she’d gotten off the plane in Newark, been hustled straight into quarantine, and three days later she was still in quarantine only by then she’d hired a lawyer to sue Governor Chris Christie. A few days before Ms. Hickox flew from Sierra Leone to Newark, a doctor, who’d…
Read MoreAsleep at the Switch
As bleak as Governor McCrory’s job approval numbers were in the WRAL poll, that wasn’t the worst news. Consider how Republicans, Democrats and Independents feel about the General Assembly. Republican Voters Approve 35% Disapprove 38% Conservative Voters Approve 33% Disapprove 37% Independent Voters Approve…
Read MoreDisapproving of Pat
36% Approve 46% Disapprove The WRAL Poll painted a bleak picture of a Governor caught between a rock and a hard place. As Mark Binker wrote, only a little over a third of the voters approve of the job Governor McCrory is doing. But worse news lurked beneath the surface. …
Read MoreBeneath the Headlines
Headline (two weeks ago): Thom Tillis on Life Support. Campaign Dying. Headline (this week): Tillis Makes Miraculous Recovery. Campaign Surging. Now, as a storyline, that’s just about unbeatable. It’s like Lazarus rising from the dead. The problem is two months ago, two weeks ago, and today (in WRAL’s latest poll), Thom Tillis…
Read MoreAn Empty Chair
I watched the ‘empty chair’ debate too (see Gary’s blog below). And it brought back old memories. Of old foibles. Years ago, in 1980, when John East ran against Robert Morgan he challenged Senator Morgan to a debate. And challenged Morgan to debate. And challenged Morgan to debate. And Morgan said No,…
Read MoreThe Senate Race – 5
You have to give Kay Hagan credit: A year ago the Swing Voters were ready to roll down the track and vote her out of office – and for a year Hagan kept those voters out of Thom Tillis’ camp. The one big change in the Senate race – Tillis’ rising unpopularity with Independents…
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