Candidate filing ends Monday for North Carolina’s 2016 elections, but that doesn’t mean the State Board of Elections and its staff will have much time to rest. Carolina Journal Managing Editor Rick Henderson dissects the upcoming campaign season for the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.
One of the pundits keeping a close watch on North Carolina and the rest of the nation this election season is Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard and Fox News. During his latest trip to Raleigh, Barnes offered Carolina Journal Radio his expert campaign insights.
North Carolina has a good chance to play a role as a presidential battleground state again in the new year. Troy Kickler says “battleground” status is nothing new for the Tar Heel State, which has played a major role in contentious debates going back to the nation’s founding.
Millennials are playing a larger role in deciding this state’s political fate. Rebecca Tippett of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina Population Center discusses the impact millennials will have on North Carolina in the years to come.
Plus you’ll learn from Becki Gray how North Carolina lawmakers have taken steps in recent years to address a “fiscal SOS.”
