Daily Perspective: July 23
Daily Perspective: July 8th
In today's Daily Perspective: Medicaid Expansion and the veto override, and a look at the US Senate race as fundraising numbers are released by some of the campaigns.
Daily Perspective: July 3rd
This episode, we discuss Medicaid expansion in NC, Thomas Jefferson and the Q2 fundraising numbers from three of the Democratic presidential aspirants.
Medicaid Expansion: Now, Not Later
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...
Daily Perspective: July 1st
This week, we touch on the gerrymandering decision last Thursday and Dan Forest's controversial remarks about diversity.
Progressivism’s Double-Edge Sword
Over the course of the last week, the Democratic debates have demonstrated in succinct form what has been known since at least 2016: The Democratic Party is shifting leftward. Or is it? Certainly, the leftward flank of the party is ascendant now. On the heels of...
Failing Upwards, Revisited
Last December I put together a little piece examining the fact that former Rep. Justin Burr, from Stanly, snagged a prime job right off of his electoral defeat. Burr, who has no experience at all in the field for which he would be responsible in this job, skated...
Daily Perspective: June 24
Rep. Larry Pittman adds more to his history of outlandish statements, this time comparing Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler.
Daily Perspective: June 19
Though Eric Mansfield and Cal Cunningham are making the biggest splash, today we examine two other candidates in the Democratic primary who have been running for a few months now: Erica Smith and Trevor Fuller, and what it takes for them to compete in a statewide...
Daily Perspective: June 18
Today, Eric Mansfield joins Cal Cunningham this week in the Democratic Primary as the field swells to four.
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