Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Worst rationale for voting for Romney: maybe Democrats will cooperate with him, unlike Republicans who refused to work with Obama. D.G. Martin asked about that argument when he interviewed Carter, Tom Drew and me on WCHL last week. That rewards obstructionism. It rewards Washington Republicans who set out from the beginning of President…
Read MoreA TAPster who has no use for John Tedesco finds common ground: “Have you taken a good look at one of John Tedesco’s yard signs in his campaign for State Superintendent? At a stoplight today, I finally took a moment to read one. Here’s what it says: “’JOHN TEDESCO: Our Children Deserve Better.’…
Read MoreConfused by the polling superstorm? Confounded by contradictory pundits? Then get a dose of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog. a deep, dense statistical analysis of the presidential race. This week he plumbed the national and battleground-state polls. His conclusion: “Obama remains the favorite in the Electoral College.” More: “Mr. Obama is not a…
Read MoreFor years the Democratic Party’s marched onto political battlefields and vanquished Republicans, winning every Governor’s race in North Carolina for two decades and, except for one brief hiatus, holding control of the State Senate and House in an iron grip for over a century. But this election Pat McCrory’s led Walter Dalton in the…
Read MoreHere’s more fuel for the Paul Newby redistricting-recusal fire (see my blog yesterday). A lawyer notes recent comments by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Conner and the contents of the N.C. Code of Judicial Conduct. O’Conner, a Republican appointed by Ronald Reagan, has strongly criticized SuperPac participation in state judicial races, the…
Read MoreLast spring an old friend, a pollster, came to Raleigh and predicted without blinking Romney was going to win and I said, Why’s that? and he said, It’s simple. A lot of people who voted for Obama last time won’t vote for him again but I don’t know anyone who voted for McCain who is…
Read MoreLooking at the big money backing Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby, a knowledgeable lawyer warns: “There would seem little doubt now but that Justice Newby will have to recuse himself from any redistricting case that might come before the high court.” The lawyer says Newby may also have to recuse himself from cases involving…
Read MoreSandy is about to blow away – literally – everything we think we know about this presidential election. Soon it will all be up in the air – or under water. There is no way to exaggerate the impact of a storm that covers 500 miles, hits 50 million people and lasts for days.…
Read MoreThe presidential race turned around when Mitt Romney turned into a moderate in the first debate. Who knows if he is really the moderate of October or the “severe conservative” of the primaries? My guess is that he’s an unprincipled son of privilege who, like George Bush, is trying to live up to an…
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