The 2018 election may finally be in the rear view mirror, but for better or worse, the next battle over the state’s future will commence very soon – on Tuesday, November 27. That’s the day that... Read More
Democrats achieved significant victories this year in the “inner suburbs” of Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, and North Carolina’s other major cities — tossing out GOP incumbents in the General... Read More
Who will succeed Margaret Spellings as president of the UNC System? That is what folks in the university community are asking these days. The next question is, Can anybody be persuaded to take that... Read More
With the final number settling in the Old North State's 2018 mid-term election, a number of analyses can be conducted with the data (with more analysis once the voter history data file is released... Read More
I am delighted and relieved that supermajorities have been diminished at both the North Carolina Legislature and the U.S. Congress. I have always felt that single party and supermajority governments... Read More
While Congressional and General Assembly races got most of the election headlines this week, history was quietly being made in a series of law enforcement races. On Tuesday the state’s seven largest... Read More
Democrats should be smiling big today, in North Carolina and across the nation. They should be optimistic about 2020 and beyond. Above all, there are now checks on Trump in Washington and Republicans... Read More
Now that Democrats have erased the GOP’s veto-proof majorities for the 2019 legislative session, Republican lawmakers could try to rush initiatives through a lame duck legislative session scheduled... Read More
Below find responses to Tuesday's elections from two more NC SPIN panelists, November 8, 2018. Bev Perdue, former governor of North Carolina and NC SPIN panelist... Read More
Out with the old and in with the…slightly less old The millennial generation is finally a bit more than Buttercup in the Fire Swamp. Millennials learned that though they are young, they can have an... Read More
