by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 18, 2020 | Politics
Share“We have a mandate to legislate,” state House Speaker Tim Moore lyrically declared. Continuing their habit of jaunty rhetoric, both Moore and his Senate counterpart Phil Berger are boasting of vindication in the 2020 election. In their telling, North...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 16, 2020 | Politics
ShareThe worst political candidates resemble items you can buy at the supermarket. Prepackaged, carefully tested, and easy to predict, they operate on an often gimmicky level and try to travel well-grooved paths to electoral victories that many want for their own...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 12, 2020 | Politics
ShareThe timing of Jesse Helms’s death was certainly ironic. He passed away in the summer of 2008, months after the state he represented for 30 years voted for Barack Obama in the Democratic primary, and months before that same state would vote for Obama in the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 11, 2020 | Politics
ShareSometimes a metaphor can reshape the way society understands itself. Such was the case with the red-blue political map that emerged from coverage of America’s 2000 presidential election. This visual conceptualization of political divides has flattened the...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 11, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog, Politics
ShareThey’re still counting ballots both nationally and in North Carolina but we can start to get a sense of what happened in the election. More data will certainly fill out the picture and will probably debunk some initial takes, perhaps even the ones I’m about...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 9, 2020 | Politics
ShareAs I wrote last week, the 2020 election was largely a disaster for North Carolina Democrats. But one commenter’s critique rang true: I did not account for Governor Roy Cooper’s reelection. The governor’s race factored as a significant bright...
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