Liberty
Hood on Cooper’s Medicaid gambit
JLF chairman John Hood analyzes the ‘mixed signals’ Gov. Roy Cooper is getting on his job performance via polls conducted by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling and the conservative…
Public Policy Polling
U.S. Pro-Democratic party (non-neutral) opinion polling company
Elections & Public Integrity
CJ Commentary: Medicaid gambit won’t boost Cooper
Recent polling on Gov. Roy Cooper’s approval ratings gives mixed signals, according to a recent commentary in Carolina Journal by syndicated columnist John Hood. Hood explains the results: [Public Policy…
Elections & Public Integrity
CJ Reports: Public Policy Polling finds N.C. closely divided on Trump, Cooper re-election
Public Policy Polling released a new poll centering around the 2020 elections, according to Carolina Journal’s Lindsay Marchello. Lindsay writes: PPP, which has Democratic clients, surveyed 610 registered voters on…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The future of public-private partnerships
With the election behind us, one PPP — Public Policy Polling — might fade into the background for a while while another — public-private partnerships — attracts new attention. Richard…
Liberty
HB2 referendum?
McClatchy Media quotes Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown and Senate Rules Chairman Tom Apodaca while floating the idea that HB2 will go to referendum in the November election: The idea…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the trail, January 20, 2015
• Pow! The most recent survey of North Carolinians from Democratic firm Public Policy Polling shows Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton blasting past their rivals. With 38 percent, Trump leads…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the trail, December 16, 2015
• Left-leaning activists filed yet another election-related lawsuit against the state, this time claiming agencies weren’t doing enough to register voters under federal law. Agencies that provide public assistance are…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the trail, November 3, 2015
• U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th District, has lapped the field of North Carolina’s House incumbents and challengers with more than $2.3 million campaign cash on hand, the Salisbury Post…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the trail, October 28, 2015
• Burying the lede, the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling shouts, “Hillary’s Back!” while also noting that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton still loses to most Republicans in their…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
‘Drunk Town’ campaign latest instance of central planning confusion
If you live near the Triangle and watch commercial television (or subscribe to the News & Observer), you’ve probably noticed the rather comical “drunk town” commercials and print ads orchestrated…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the trail, August 26, 2015
• Speaker Meadows? Rep. Mark Meadows, R-11th, soon may escalate his battle with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Meadows tells The Daily Signal if House leaders don’t listen to conservatives,…
Liberty
Donald Trump and Jesse Helms
Darn it, I must have missed Susan Ladd’s N&R column comparing Donald Trump to Jesse Helms (emphasis mine): Trump, like Helms, whips up the electorate by playing on the fear…