NC Spin Articles


Eye opening expenses from DHHS

Editorial by Burlington Times-News, September 16, 2014. North Carolina taxpayers have spent more than $7.2 million on consultants for the department that administers Medicaid and other human services...    Read More

September 17, 2014

No love lost here

First Governor McCrory compared Senator Phil Berger to Tony Rand, Marc Basnight and Harry Reid. Then, McCrory said he wouldn’t call the legislature back into session because “after a lengthy...    Read More

September 17, 2014



DHHS' outside consultation is too costly

Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, September 16, 2014. The state Department of Health and Human Services is troubled, to say the least, and has been for some time. Discovering that DHHS continues to...    Read More

September 17, 2014

Hagan continues to lead by 4 points

PPP's newest North Carolina Senate poll finds the race steady compared to a month ago. Kay Hagan continues to lead by 4 points, with 44% to 40% for Thom Tillis and 5% for Libertarian Sean Haugh. Haugh...    Read More

September 17, 2014



Can politics be made clean?

The idea of ethical politics seems today to be an oxymoron – a contradiction in terms – sort of like civil war or diet chocolate cake. Doctors and lawyers have codes of conduct. So do many...    Read More

September 17, 2014

State raised school funding

Just before Labor Day, the publicly available polls of likely voters had incumbent U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan roughly tied with her Republican challenger, Thom Tillis. Since Labor Day, the polling average...    Read More

by John Hood   |   September 17, 2014


Women and men

More telling than Kay Hagan’s overall lead in the polls may be her overwhelming lead with women.   According to a Rasmussen Poll last week, Hagan leads Thom Tillis by six points, 45-39. But then it...    Read More

September 16, 2014