PoliticsNC Book Club-Michael Jordan: The Life
Few icons are as deeply woven into North Carolina's cultural fabric as the game of basketball. After hard days in the textile mills or tobacco fields, North Carolinians would huddle around black-and-white TVs to watch Southern Conference, and later ACC, roundball. At...
A difficult environment for the party in the White House
Another poll shows Republicans in trouble in North Carolina. It’s just the latest that shows Democrats with a lead in every top-of-the-ticket race in the state. This poll by Daily Kos is an online survey. While polling at this stage in the election cycle is not...
“Let people die” is a losing message
The dumbest messaging I think I’ve ever seen in politics is the “let people die” mantra of the GOP. Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro made the argument that most people who are dying from COVID-19 are over 80 years old and life expectancy is only 80 so they...
Polls show NC Democrats in a strong position
The polling drought has broken in North Carolina. For the first three years of the Trump era, public opinion surveys were agonizingly scarce in the Tar Heel State. That's because the state did not have any nationally relevant elections in 2018. State political junkies...
Reopen NC echoes the Goldwater movement
Fifty-six years ago, a political campaign carried with it an edge of extremism. It was conservative insurgency of Barry Goldwater, propelled by a groundswell of right-wing energy largely emanating from the South and West, that conquered the Republican Party. The...
The federal failure
We’ve been had. For forty years, Republicans have been telling us that government is the problem and that it is too incompetent to provide vital services. The free market, they told us, is the best vehicle to get the greatest benefit to the most people. Government is...
Poll: Forest is getting crushed
Yet another poll shows Republicans struggling in North Carolina. The latest SurveyUSA poll shows Joe Biden leading Donald Trump 50 to 45. Biden crossing the 50 percent threshold should especially worry the GOP because that means Trump could win all of the undecided...
Georgia and Tennessee: Democracy’s lab rats
Watching the response to the coronavirus turn political is a little disheartening but it’s also very illuminating. Increasingly, those on the right side of the political spectrum are calling for opening up all businesses quickly and consequences be damned. Those on...
Tax policy: What could have been and what should be
In the last two years, researchers have unearthed stunning statistics related to tax policy in America and North Carolina. For the first time in history, the 400--FOUR HUNDRED--wealthiest people in the country pay a lower average tax rate than the bottom half of...
Joe’s Show Biz Shindig: Hit or Miss?
Joe Biden and show biz buddies assembled for a virtual fundraiser on Thursday night. Organizers modeled the format on a recent Rosie O’Donnell livestream extravaganza for The Actors Fund, featuring a parade of celebrity performances and chats. Success was not...
PoliticsNC Book Club: The Making of a Southern Democracy
It is hard to imagine that one state could elect governors as different as Kerr Scott and Pat McCrory. The "Squire of Haw River" and "Mayor Pat" hailed from different political parties, different communities, and diametrically opposed ideological traditions. True,...
The chameleon
Yesterday, Governor Roy Cooper laid out a measured plan for opening up the state. He extended the stay-at-home order until May 8 and set out benchmarks for easing restrictions in phases over the next couple of months. He largely followed the protocols set forth by the...
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