Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Mark Binker is not necessarily a pretty face. But he’s the face of where journalism is going in North Carolina. And that looks like good news. Binker is former capital reporter for The Greensboro News & Record. He has left to work for WRAL-TV. That’s a story right there. TV political/governmental news used…
Mitt Romney has three things going for him: math, money and stupid opponents. Math has become Mitt’s main message: “I’m going to win because the delegate math is on my side.” He’s definitely a numbers guy. He’s also a money guy. He doesn’t beat his opponents so much as he drowns them in…
Since Paul Coble doesn’t have George Holding’s money, he has to find other ways to get his message out: like meetings of the Wake County Commissioners. So far they’ve taken up same-sex marriage and the UN’s attempt to control our lives. Now it’s voter ID laws. Coble needs to take up another issue:…
Why did President Obama announce he’s against Amendment One? Because African-American voters strongly support it. Since African-Americans lean so strongly Democratic, an oft-overlooked fact is that they are the most church-going, religious and even evangelical voting blocs in a religious, church-going state. And polls show they strongly oppose same-sex marriages. The recent Elon…
Every day we move closer to the primary in May more punches and elbows are thrown by politicians. Now, in politics there are three kinds of negative attacks. There’s ‘The Blunder’ – this attack is so outrageous (and untrue) it backfires and destroys the attacker. People take one look at it and say,…
Since before the Iowa Caucus the pundits have been saying what Republican voters care about most is electing the strongest candidate to beat Obama, or electing the candidate who’d fight hardest to cut spending. Almost everyone’s been opining ‘The election’s about who can beat Obama’ or ‘The election’s about spending,’ but it turns out that’s…
A Democratic operative (not in the governor’s race) says Bill Faison may place a statewide TV buy of nearly $1.5 million in April. Will Faison be the John Edwards of 2012? That’s not fair to Faison. I don’t mean the John Edwards we came to know. I mean the Edwards we met in 1998,…
Paul Coble reared up on his hind legs and slammed an evangelical, born again, Spirit moving Baptist by calling him a liberal gay marriage supporter – then added that’s the kind of no good varmint who’s supporting his opponent’s campaign and that’s all the reason anyone needs to know to vote against George Holding. …
You could earn a bachelor’s degree in political science just talking to the two of them: former Governor Jim Hunt and Congressman (and Minority Whip) Steny Hoyer. They were together last night at a fundraiser for Congressman Larry Kissell hosted by Heather and Bruce Thompson in Raleigh. Hoyer has represented Maryland in Congress…
How do you get your news? Our statewide poll asked North Carolina voters what their primary…
Thom Tillis and Phil Berger fed the MAGA alligator. Then it ate them. Thomas Mills wrote…
Exactly 80 years ago, in 1946, Republicans took control of Congress with a simple message: “Had…