This one is particularly sweet. It wasn’t so long ago that I had the pleasure of editing the random musings of Mick Mulvaney, back when he was a regular contributing columnist for The Rhino Times in Charlotte. He was an anti-big government, pro-free market renegade then and he still is today, only now he’s got […]
Republican Richard Burr rumbled to an easy victory last night, trouncing Democrat Elaine Marshall by a 56 to 43 percent margin to retain his US Senate seat. Although you’d never know if you had your eyes on Mecklenburg County, where Marshall took Burr to the woodshed, nearly flipping the statewide tally and capturing 52 percent […]
With less than a week to go before the midterm election, recent polls like this one from The Hill indicate that Mick Mulvaney leads incumbant Democrat John Spratt by 10 points.
One-stop early voting in Mecklenburg County continues tomorrow, Sunday, and next Saturday, Oct. 30. A list of polling locations and times is available here. Make it count: h/t: Frank Hill
Got this handy-dandy new vote tracker in an email yesterday from the good folks at the Civitas Institute. It’s a nifty way to keep pace with running totals on a daily basis, for anybody without anything better to do like, I don’t know, watching the Rangers clobber the Yankees. According to the Civitas tracker, we […]
Credit given where credit due. I’ve been involved in political campaigns in some form or fashion on a yearly basis for nearly half of my life. The pushcards, the mailers, the commercials…well, they all seem to blend together after awhile. That’s not to offend any well intentioned politician or consultant out there, but after awhile […]
Several weeks ago, all candidates for the U.S. House and Senate in North Carolina were mailed and urged to complete Campaign for Liberty’s 2010 Federal Survey. This survey asked questions to find out what each candidate believes about the issues that are important to constitutional government and liberty. The survey and candidate responses – or in […]
And it isn’t pretty: 55 percent of North Carolina voters disapprove of President Obama’s job performance, a record high for his two years in office, according to the latest poll from the Civitas Institute of 600 likely voters. Only 42 percent said they approve of Obama’s job performance. “The worst time possible for a President […]
Former N.C. House Speaker Jim Black, a Charlotte Democrat, has been released from federal prison six-months ahead of schedule and will serve the balance of his time in either a halfway house in Mecklenburg County or under house arrest, WRAL is reporting. Black, whose full sentence for 2007 corruption, bribery and obstruction of justice guilty […]
Of the press, that is. Beverly Perdue’s office earlier this year snagged former Charlotte Observer political reporter Mark Johnson to become the governor’s deputy press secretary. Now it’s Raleigh News & Observer reporter Benjamin Niolet, who has been hired away from his beat to become the director of new media for the governor’s office. Gordon […]
