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Mocking Democracy

by Kirk Kovach | Sep 11, 2019 | The Kovach Corner

Today in the North Carolina General Assembly, most members of the House were not present. Apparently, Representative David Lewis had told Democratic leaders that there would be no votes this morning. Multiple reporters who cover the NCGA were told the same, and there...

What Common Cause v. Lewis means for the future

by Kirk Kovach | Sep 6, 2019 | 2020 election, The Kovach Corner

This week, a Wake County Superior Court issued a decision in the infamous Common Cause v. Lewis case. Their decision overturned the oft-litigated legislative maps in North Carolina, which for decades have churned through the court system as the party in power drew...

Democrats Outpacing Republicans in NC-09 Absentee

by Kirk Kovach | Aug 29, 2019 | 2018 elections, 2020 election, Campaigns, The Kovach Corner

Back to the future! In what is likely, and certainly feels like, the longest congressional election ever, the voters of the 9th District are going to the polls. If you’re interested in digging into the numbers, as always Prof. Michael Bitzer from Old North State...

Seriously Unserious

by Kirk Kovach | Aug 6, 2019 | 2018 elections, 2020 election, NC Politics, The Kovach Corner

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...

Dysfunction at the Board of Elections

by Kirk Kovach | Jul 31, 2019 | 2020 election, The Kovach Corner

You might have noticed a trend in North Carolina politics: dysfunction. That sense now pervades even those seemingly innocuous arms of the government. Just this week, the chairman of the Board of Elections, Bob Cordle, resigned after apparently telling some lengthy,...

Medicaid Expansion: Now, Not Later

by Kirk Kovach | Jul 2, 2019 | Health Care, The Kovach Corner

Then-candidate Roy Cooper made Medicaid expansion a key plank in his list of issues. Now, two years into his tenure, is the first real opportunity to do it. With Democrats clawing back a handful of seats both in the House and Senate last year, Republicans no longer...