Thomas Mills

Steyer brings his vanity campaign to North Carolina

by Thomas Mills | Jan 10, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog | 6 comments

It looks like billionaire presidential candidate Tom Steyer is heading to North Carolina this weekend. Steyer is going to North Carolina Central University to talk about his plan for HBCUs. He’s going to McDougal Terrace in Durham, the public housing complex that had...

Just doing his job–and a lot more

by Thomas Mills | Jan 8, 2020 | Editor's Blog | 1 comment

A number of progressives are complaining about Attorney General Josh Stein defending the voter ID law in court. They should get over it. He’s just doing the job he was elected to do. No attorney general agrees with every law he or she has to defend, but the job...

A sad little man

by Thomas Mills | Jan 6, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog | 7 comments

I suspect that at some point, Thom Tillis had a modicum of self-respect. I also suspect that those days are long forgotten. Today, he debases himself regularly trying to stay in the good graces of the con man in the White House. This weekend, he tweeted, “Eric...

The most impressive campaign

by Thomas Mills | Jan 3, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog | 3 comments

In a post I wrote last week, I said that I didn’t think Pete Buttigieg could win North Carolina because the state isn’t ready to elect a gay man president. I should have said more. I don’t believe Buttigieg can win North Carolina and I don’t believe he will be the...

2020 predictions

by Thomas Mills | Jan 1, 2020 | Editor's Blog | 5 comments

With the beginning of a new decade as well as a new year, I’ll venture into a few predictions. After the election of Donald Trump, I no longer have a lot of confidence in my ability to predict the electorate. That said, here goes. First, for the next decade. I predict...