by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 29, 2020 | Politics
ShareOne month out from the election, Joe Biden and Democrats sit in an advantageous position. Biden has led Donald Trump in the polls for months both nationally and even in North Carolina, a conservative-tilting swing state that previously voted for the president by...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 8, 2020 | Politics
ShareIs North Carolina the nation’s most military-friendly state? Since Mike Easley coined that phrase in the mid-2000’s, it has been a point of pride for most Tar Heels. The state hosts the biggest military base in the world and has a population of...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 27, 2020 | Politics
ShareSometimes political rhetoric can embed itself in the psyche of a nation. Almost 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan changed the country with one simple sentence: “government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem.” Since then,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 25, 2020 | Politics
ShareNorth Carolina arrived on the scene of presidential relevance in 2008. As Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling often observes, the Tar Heel state had the second-closest margin in the country both in that year and four years later, in 2012. Even in 2016, when...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 13, 2020 | Features, Politics
ShareNorth Carolina’s progress between 1960 and 2010 was often uneven, imperfect and insufficient, but it was nevertheless impressive. The state went from having some of the lowest wages and worst educational attainment in the country to being what was widely...
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