by Thomas Mills | Aug 7, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
ShareThis year feels increasingly like 2006. Back then, the Republican Party was fighting off scandals, wars, botched responses to natural disasters, and numerous self-inflicted wounds. This year, the pandemic and the reckoning over race have replaced the wars and...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 6, 2020 | 2020 elections, coronavirus, Editor's Blog
ShareA group called AccountableUS released a poll yesterday that indicates a bubbling economic populism in the state driven by COVID and in contradiction to the GOP approach to the coronavirus. The poll also shows how the GOP is out of step with the rest of the state...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 5, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
ShareFor most of the time I’ve worked in politics, the political environment was pretty much baked-in by Labor Day. In the final two months of a campaign, candidates could fight around the edges, running against the tide, with a tide or battling out a more neutral...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 3, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog
ShareAnother poll in North Carolina shows Biden leading Trump and Cunningham with a huge lead over Tillis. We’ve seen similar polls since the spring. Conservatives don’t believe them. They cite the 2016 polls that showed Clinton defeating Trump. They believe rural...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 31, 2020 | 2020 elections, coronavirus, Editor's Blog
ShareNo, President Trump is not going to move or cancel the election. Congress is not going to allow that. Even Republicans will oppose it. Still, the sentiment is widely accepted by the GOP: rig elections to benefit Republicans. We’ve been front and center in the...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 30, 2020 | coronavirus, Editor's Blog
ShareYesterday, U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) tested positive for COVID-19. He blamed wearing a mask for contracting the virus. Gohmert announced he’s taking hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus despite no evidence that it worked. A staffer from his office...
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