Daily Perspective: August 15
Today in the Daily Perspective: the state budget is still in a deadlock over Medicaid expansionCooper leads Republican challengers in the latest Civitas pollBiden still leads the field of Democrats vying for the presidential nomination
Black voters, Biden and redemption
Jonathan Capehart, an African American columnist for the Washington Post, recently wrote about an annual family reunion his family holds in Severn in northeastern North Carolina. This year, Capehart used the experience to take the pulse of black Democrats in the...
It’s not doxing. It’s transparency.
Last week, Congressman Joaquin Castro, brother of presidential candidate Julian Castro, released the names of people who contributed to Donald Trump’s campaign. Critics screamed that Castro was “doxing” Trump supporters. The Civitas Institute says Castro is trying to...
Time for a reckoning
This morning The Atlantic published an article about the transfer of millions of acres of land from African-Americans to corporations in Mississippi. It comes on the heels of a story published in the New Yorker by ProPublica writer Lizzie Presser about black families...
Civitas poll shows Biden with substantial lead in NC
Civitas released a new poll yesterday that shows Joe Biden firmly in the lead in the Democratic primary in North Carolina. It also looks at the level of interest in the primary and asks about a battery of questions about issues facing North Carolina voters. Questions...
Perspective: Medicaid Expansion with Graig Meyer
Graig Meyer joins the conversation to discuss Medicaid Expansion and the state of the North Carolina budget negotiations. Q: Do you see any legitimate downsides to Medicaid Expansion? A: No.
GOP Healthcare Policy at Odds with Itself on Medicaid Expansion
The battle over North Carolina’s 2019-20 and 2020-21 budgets is currently raging a month into overtime. The crux of that fight is, of course, Medicaid expansion. Along the way it has been portrayed by opponents as a liberal hobby horse, a pet project, the most...
Chief budget negotiator
The standoff over the budget is a great example of the perils of one-party rule. For most of this decade, Republicans in the legislature held veto-proof majorities, or close to it. They got accustomed to passing legislation and routinely overriding governors’ vetoes,...
Seriously Unserious
In the wake of the tragic massacres in our nation over the weekend, one in El Paso, Texas, the other in Dayton, Ohio, most if not all Americans took a moment to reflect on the type of rhetoric and inaction that has brought us to this point in American history. I say...
The bar for bigotry
We’re in an age where the dangerous rhetoric of our top elected officials emboldens extremists to take action. The latest mass murder in El Paso offers the best example. The 21-year-old white supremacist who killed 20 people mimicked the language of Donald Trump in...
The Cohen Grand Bargain
The chair of the State Board of Elections abruptly resigned this week after telling an off-color joke in front of a large audience of election officials from across the state. According to WRAL reporters, Bob Cordle has a history of making inappropriate...
The Democratic field, post-debate
I didn’t watch any of the first night of the debates this week and only watched about forty-five minutes of the one last night. I don’t think they matter that much except for whittling down the ridiculously large field. Nobody’s paying much attention at this point in...
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