The John Locke Foundation’s Jim Stirling and Andy Jackson both spoke at a public hearing of the joint Senate Redistricting and Elections and House Redistricting committees on September 27 at…
As far as the criteria the court majority wants the General Assembly to use, what they offer is thin and, on its face, contradictory.
Avoiding splitting political units (counties, municipalities, and precincts) was part of the criteria adopted by the General Assembly at the start of the redistricting process. Let’s see how well they…
Political and racial data are appropriately banned from consideration when legislators draw district maps. Preventing "double bunking" of incumbents can prevent map drawers from following redistricting best practices such as…
Scrolling through #ncpol on Twitter this morning, I came across a tweet about Buncombe County Commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara announcing her candidacy for Congress in the 11th District against incumbent Madison…
Jay Nordlinger reviews for National Review Online a new book about our political divisions. Campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina often spoke…
That’s the conclusion of a paper called, “The effects of housing supply restrictions on partisan geography,” that appears in the September edition of Political Geography. It’s important to note that,…
Rick Henderson reports for Carolina Journal Online on significant differences between Atlantic Coast Pipeline approval deals in Virginia and North Carolina. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why geography presents a…
That’s Nate Silver’s conclusion. The key points from an informative article for Fivethirtyeight.com: Sometimes statistical analysis is tricky, and sometimes a finding just jumps off the page. Here’s one example…
Republicans will hold their largest majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in decades thanks to the 2014 elections. Michael Barone reminds Washington Examiner readers that the composition of this…
The N&R’s Doug Clark is quick to point out that Thom Tillis’ 48.87 of the vote is the lowest in state history, undercutting John East’s 1980 victory over incumbent Sen.…
Basically, it’s very likely that the GOP will hold the N.C. House through the remainder of this decade. As Carolina Strategy observes: When Republicans drew the current districts, they packed…