Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
An astute observer poses this question about Elaine Marshall’s new ad: “How do Democrats like David Price and Bob Etheridge feel about her saying it’s time to throw out the Washington politicians?” Well, for Democrats this year, it’s obviously every man – and woman – for themselves. Marshall’s ad is simple and inexpensive,…
After Lanier Cansler figured out how to end run the Medicaid appeals process (so he could cut patients’ home care pretty much however he wanted) he was ready to take the next step. He’d already given CCME Corporation (his former client from his lobbying days) a $25 million no bid contract, so all he…
Ferrel Guillory – along with his colleagues and students in the Program on Public Life at UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication – has published a useful guide to political polls. Get it at their website here. This is timely, given the plethora of polls today, the extensive media coverage they get and…
Back when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, we figured fightin’ was going to be the key to winning the war, so we told General McArthur to charge and keep charging and not to worry about the amount of havoc he wrecked until the Japanese were whipped. In the same vein in 1944 and ’45…
Whenever a politician or party talks about “mobilizing the base” in the final weeks of a campaign, you know they’re in trouble. That’s exactly where President Obama and the Democrats are, as this story from the New York Times noted: “With four weeks until Congressional elections that will shape the remainder of his…
After Secretary Lanier Cansler gave a 25$ million no bid contract (to his former client CCME Corporation) and promised legislators that meant he’d be able to cut in-home care to Medicaid patients $50 million (because, he said, 45% of the patients were cheats) he ran into a problem. When he ran all the patients’ records through…
If the Republican takeover of the Wake County school board last year was a sign of what’s to come in this year’s elections, will this week’s train wreck on the board be a sign of what’s to come next year – in Raleigh and Washington? Campaigning is much easier than governing, as President Obama…
“Prom Queen!” “Calm down, now, John.” “I enjoyed our friendship – while it lasted.” It sounds like two middle-schoolers having a bad breakup. But no. It was the Wake County school board majority falling out of love. And they did it with such grace and style. So mature and professional. Such…
A few years ago Secretary Lanier Cansler’s Department decided to ‘reform’ care for the mentally ill and when they finished the state’s mental hospitals were in a shambles and schizophrenics were being handcuffed to beds in Emergency Rooms in local hospitals because the state had nowhere to care for them. Next Cansler’s Department decided…
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…