The GOP clown car needs a bus
I find it remarkable how in the age of Trump, the entire Republican Party has lost any sense of shame. Yesterday, we learned that Senate President Pro-tem Phil Berger is buying a house in Raleigh with campaign funds. Instead of trying to rationalize it in some...
Podcast: Democrats’ path through NC next year
Gary Pearce writes on his site, New Day for NC.
Raleigh swamp monsters
For decades, we’ve heard conservatives say that government should be run like a business. After ten years of GOP rule in North Carolina and almost three years of the Trump administration, we now know what that looks like. Politicians use their positions to benefit...
Speaker Moore as UNC System President? Let’s hope not.
Rumors are par for the course in politics. Often, they’re floated to unsuspecting couriers to sway opinion about this or that issue. They may or may not be true, but the chatter around them gives credence to their message. One such rumor is now making its way around...
Encouraging signs for Democrats
On the eve of the Kentucky gubernatorial election, Donald Trump held a rally for Republican Governor Matt Bevin, telling the audience that if Bevin lost it would send "a really bad message to the rest of the country." Now that message has been delivered. Bevin lost to...
A sneak peak at 2020
Tonight, we’ll get our best preview of the 2020 elections. In Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi and New Jersey, voters will choose new state legislators and in Mississippi and Kentucky, new governors. While a lot can change in a year, we’ll get a sense of where the...
A sobering poll for Democrats
Democrats in North Carolina who think they’re about to sail to victory next November should think again. The New York Times has an in-depth poll out this morning that shows Donald Trump leading the state against the top Democrats running. He’s ahead of Biden by...
On gerrymandering, at least the Supreme Court is consistent
When a panel of state judges threw out the Congressional districts in North Carolina last week, we heard a familiar refrain from a lot of Republicans. They claimed the state courts were defying the Supreme Court. That argument is bunk. In reality, the Supreme Court...
Perspective Podcast: The Budget Impasse & Fair Maps
Gary Pearce joins again to discuss fair maps and what they imply for North Carolina, and the ongoing budget impasse. Gary publishes New Day for NC.
Gary Pearce: Age wave hits North Carolina
A wave of new and young voters has come ashore in North Carolina – and could reshape politics in the state and nation in 2020 and beyond. Political scientists have long said that millennials – born between 1981 and 1996 – are the biggest and fastest-growing bloc of...
Holding teachers and state employees hostage
Yesterday, Republicans wrote a Democratic political ad. They’re holding teachers and state employees raises hostage unless Democrats drop their bid to expand Medicaid and give health care to the working poor. That’s just cold. I don’t know who in the GOP thought that...
Gerrymandering makes hypocrites on both sides
On Monday, the three-judge panel hearing North Carolina’s redistricting cases handed down two consequential decisions in the span of a few minutes. The first upheld the new legislative maps drawn by the general assembly. The second required the legislature to draw new...
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