by Thomas Mills | Oct 20, 2021 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
When I first started working in politics in the mid-1990s, Hal Malchow was one of Democrats’ top political strategists. He was a direct mail guru who built a highly successful firm and wrote the first book on microtargeting before computers revolutionized the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Oct 18, 2021 | Politics |
In his latest financial disclosure report, Pat McCrory gave North Carolinians yet another reason to view him warily. Acknowledging millions of dollars in assets, McCrory disclosed that he owns hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock from numerous companies. Some of...
by Alexander H. Jones | Oct 14, 2021 | Politics |
Americans once again find their national well being captive to the depredations of the United States Senate. Alas, this is hardly the first time. Throughout its history the Senate has functioned as a barrier against needed social reform, and a bastion of reaction in a...
by Alexander H. Jones | Oct 13, 2021 | Politics |
In 2008, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee attempted to recruit a governor, an attorney general, and four congressmen to run against Elizabeth Dole. When they came up short, most observers understood it as a recruiting failure. What is more striking in the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Oct 12, 2021 | Politics |
Most North Carolina Republicans wouldn’t consider it an insult to compare their darling with Jesse Helms. So I feel no compunction about drawing parallels between our Lieutenant Governor in the year 2021 and the most notorious Dixie demagogue of the late...
by Alexander H. Jones | Oct 11, 2021 | Politics |
Last week saw quarterly fundraising reports come out for Democratic candidates Jeff Jackson and Cheri Beasley. Jackson was first out of the gate, announcing that he had hauled in $900,000. Beasley took a few more days to release her money report, but when it came out,...
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