The May 17th primary is just around the corner. For the media and those active in this year’s primary election, these next few days will be spent reviewing copious amounts…
With only six weeks till North Carolina’s primary election, legislative and congressional candidates have been working on getting as much attention to their campaign as possible to represent their party…
This week, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis made national headlines during the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings. Tillis asked hard-hitting questions of Jackson, bringing up her rulings on early prison…
To find the partisan leanings of North Carolina's new congressional districts, we used methods like those used in the Civitas Partisan Index. The congressional map drawn by court-appointed special masters…
As of Friday, March 4, all legislative districts and candidates are set for this year’s state legislative races. The Civitas Center for Public Integrity has created a spreadsheet with all…
Having already discussed the two incumbent primaries in the senate, Senate District Forty-Seven Hise v. Ballard and Senate District One Steinburg v. Sanderson. We now look to the House of…
On Monday, March 7th, we discussed the competitive primary of two Republican leaders in the western part of the state: Senators Ralph Hise (R) v. Dianna Ballard (R). We analyzed…
North Carolina is finally moving forward in its elections after a myriad of lawsuits successfully altered both the congressional and legislative maps to be more favorable to Democrats. Friday, March…
Democrats have severely handicapped themselves by not recruiting a fuller slate of candidates.
[S]omeone using the CPI without any other data would have successfully predicted 90 percent of state legislative races in 2018 and over 94 percent of races in 2020
[See an update below on the shaky constitutional ground of the special masters’ congressional map.] A three-judge panel of the Wake County Superior Court issued its ruling in a set…
Friday, February 18 was the deadline for the new state legislative and congressional maps to be sent to the trial court by the Legislature and the Plaintiffs in the Harper…