Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Polls Apart – Again
One reason I’ll watch the Wake school bonds vote is to see whose polls are accurate: The News & Observer published a Mason-Dixon poll strongly indicating the bonds would lose. That poll showed support at only 35 percent. But two other polls show the bonds winning. Public Policy Polling said last week the bonds were…
“A Democratic Year – Or Years?” — Heaven Help Us
Gary, I’ll go along with you and John Davis this far: The Republicans moving to North Carolina are not Jesse Helms Republicans. But then we part company. Here’s why: Republicans and Democrats are highly polarized, ninety percent (election after election) vote for the major candidates of their party. More people vote ‘straight tickets’ today than…
A Democratic Year — And Years?
NC FREE Executive Director John Davis, like a lot of prognosticators, says this will be a Democratic year. HHHe also raises hopes there will be many more Democratic years. I heard Davis give a presentation in Wilmington this week, and I got some ideas and information from him I haven’t heard anyplace else. About this…
Y’all Vote
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Poll on School Bonds
There’s a lot to be learned from the News and Observer’s poll (10-24-06). Let’s start with the School Bond. Supporters say their poll shows voters support the bonds 56% to 37%. The News and Observer’s poll shows almost the exact opposite. Voters oppose the bonds 54% to 35%. Every group in the News and Observer…
Interrogations and Torture
The ACLU is asking the courts to strike down the law Congress just passed (and the President signed) about the military’s interrogation of captured terrorists. They say the law allows interrogations and military trials that violate cherished traditions and civil liberties. Now, it is natural that anytime the American government passes a law limiting civil…
A Sure Way to Get a Politician in Trouble…
…is to give him a state airplane. The News and Observer reports (10-23-06) “eyebrows were raised” last weekend at the Democrats Vance-Aycock dinner when State Treasurer Richard Moore, who has a campaign chest bulging with money, showed up in a state plane. Moore’s spokeswoman said his “official duties” that day included a “literary meeting,” a…
Getting Personal
I’m afraid my Democrats still don’t get it: politics is about character, not policy. You think we’d learn after Al Gore and John Kerry. But no. The cycle repeats itself this election cycle. Democrats all over the country, it seems to me, are running ads attacking Republicans on complex policy issues. Republicans, in the final…
Who’s Guilty: Both
Unfortunately, there’s another piece of bad news for us Republicans when it comes to the impact of the lottery scandal on Democrats this election. NCFREE, a longstanding, respected, non-profit, pro-business organization has taken a poll. It asked which party is more likely to be corrupt? The answer: Both. John Davis, President of NCFREE, stated, “The…