Alexis Levinson of National Review Online ponders the re-election prospects for North Carolina’s senior senator. Republicans are increasingly nervous about the Senate race in North Carolina, where Senator Richard Burr…
From the conclusion to my recent Spotlight report on renewable energy: In North Carolina, electricity consumers have no choice in their electricity provider. This fact should, first of all, never provide…
“The Senate has such a blunderbuss approach to things that standing up to them could make him look reasonable.” — GOP strategist Carter Wrenn, talking to the Charlotte Observer about…
• Walter Dalton and Pat McCrory aren’t yet sure how to respond to an expansion in Medicaid eligibility permitted by the Affordable Care Act. • A News & Observer…
Gov. Bev Perdue is pulling out all the stops (or at least all the cabinet officials) as she traverses the state pitching the importance of public education to North Carolina…
Over at his Talking About Politics blog, Carter Wrenn discusses a bill sponsored by leftist Sen. Doug Berger that gives the E-NC Authority something else to do: A while back…
Another good video report, this one from Charlotte’s WBTV, on Tim D’Annunzio’s “you’re probably going to hell” remark. More drama in the 8th Congressional District. After saying it would take…
Apparently, Rob Christensen, Jim Morrill and Mark Johnson are serious when they call Governor Bev Perdue a reformer. Carter Wrenn has a different take on Perdue’s first few months in…
Republican campaign warhorse Carter Wrenn thinks Bev needs a miracle to come back. ““In politics, you never say never. Miracles happen, and Lazarus will raise from the dead. But I…
? Politico picks up on the ?Under the Dome? item from the N&O about the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee reserving $6 million of TV airtime to run ads supporting Kay…
? More evidence of Fred Smith’s major move against Pat McCrory shows up in a new Mason-Dixon poll for WRAL putting the two at 32-31, respectively. ? Richard Moore’s “barbershop”…
Veteran GOP strategist Carter Wrenn has praise for former Clinton White House staffer Erskine Bowles: There’s been some grumbling by professors who say he’s trying to run a university like…