Carter is a Republican. Gary is a Democrat.

They met in 1984, during the epic U.S. Senate battle between Jesse Helms and Jim Hunt. Carter worked for Helms and Gary, for Hunt.

Years later, they became friends. They even worked together on some nonpolitical clients.

They enjoy talking about politics. So they started this blog in 2005.

They’re still talking. And they invite you to join the conversation.

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Enough for One Day

By Carter Wrenn March 6, 2020

The first news story I read (on the internet) showed Trump tweeting out a video of a bearded Hell’s Angel-type riding a motorcycle cussing out an older man driving an SUV beside him, using the f-word seven times. The next story was the Washington Post jumping all over Trump but not for the f-word –…

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Rolling Downhill

By Carter Wrenn March 6, 2020

The first minister, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, looked across the room full of Washington politicians who’d been eye-gouging one another since the day Trump took office and made a suggestion: Why not try a bit of “love your enemies.” President Trump stood up next and spoke. I don’t know that I agree with…

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Another Associated Press Fact Check

By Carter Wrenn January 28, 2020

I’d like to see President Trump take the Associated Press head on. In another ‘Fact Check’ the AP said President Trump lied three times at the Davos Forum in Switzerland. At a press conference, Trump said he’d ‘saved HBCU’s’ (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). The AP called that ‘a big stretch.’ It said HBCU’s were…

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Who lied? And why?

By Carter Wrenn January 27, 2020

This is a test. Read that. Leaning across the table Judge Gavin handed Mike and Vic a newspaper article: At the impeachment trial Trump’s lawyer said the House Judiciary Committee denied Trump the fundamental “right to cross examine witnesses” and that same day, before the sun set, the Associated Press reported “That’s false.” Who’s lying?…

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Impeachment Polls

By Carter Wrenn January 7, 2020

Without a murmur of doubt a Republican pollster sitting on the dais at a forum announced, Impeachment is bringing Independent voters into Trump’s camp – and the Democratic pollster sitting beside him shot-back, Just look at the numbers. Trump’s toast. Thinking ‘neither can see the forest through the trees’ I went to Real Clear Politics…

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Independence and Bullying

By Carter Wrenn January 6, 2020

Donald Trump epitomizes an American trait: Independence. Like Trump or loathe him, he’s his own man, stands on his own two feet, and has the courage to fight all corners. So how did Trump come to be so unpopular? Trump also epitomizes another American trait: To win he bullies and boasts, but when Trump tweets…

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A Michigan Focus Group

By Carter Wrenn January 3, 2020

Chuck Todd’s anti-Trump to the bone but now and then surprises happen and one happened on Meet the Press when Todd played a video of a focus group of Republican voters sitting around a  table in Grand Rapids, Michigan;–––the moderator started by asking, ‘Do you think impeachment is too complicated to follow? and a white-haired…

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The Day They Impeached Trump

By Carter Wrenn January 2, 2020

For an hour driving to a luncheon in Cary then driving back to my office I listened to the impeachment debate in the House on the radio; one Congressman after another spoke and their voices all sounded the same: Angry and scared. Republicans stood up railing against Pelosi and, with equal heat, Democrats branded Trump…

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Did Rudy Play Donald?

By Carter Wrenn December 11, 2019

The way Adam Schiff tells it Trump wanted dirt on Joe Biden so he told the Ukrainian President to ‘Work with Rudy.’ Trump blasts back that Schiff’s full of hot air – it’s all baloney. But up in Manhattan a United States Attorney, who indicted two of Giuliani’s associates from the Ukraine, unearthed a different…

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Recessional

By Carter Wrenn November 11, 2024

The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient…

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Mistakes and Miss-Takes

By Gary Pearce November 10, 2024

Bert Bennett of Winston-Salem, the legendary political godfather to Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt, had a…

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Don’t Give Up

By Gary Pearce November 6, 2024

This is bad. Bad for America and for the world. Bad for women, for immigrants, for…

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