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Sarah Okeson profiles the U.S. Senate race between Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Deborah Ross (along with Libertarian Sean Haugh) for Carolina Journal Online. The Daily Journal examines facts contradicting…
• It looks as if U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-2nd District, may have three high-profile primary challengers. Former Chatham County GOP chairman Jim Duncan already has filed for the seat;…
North Carolina voters elected a new Republican U.S. senator and helped conservatives maintain supermajorities in the state House and Senate. Democrats fell short of their goal of chipping away at…
• Yes, we’re still here and will continue to be until the Supreme Court contest between Justice Cheri Beasley and attorney Mike Robinson is settled. On Wednesday, Robinson a Republican,…
WRAL News follows up on an earlier story using analysis from the Center for Responsive Politics on campaign spending during the almost-finished election cycle. Using $111 million as the total…
Now that I can’t influence the elections, I’d like to give a shout-out to Sean Haugh, to whose mastery of the political process every bone in my Obamacare-hating body tips…
• Guess what day it is? The polls close at 7:30. • U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan gets a last-minute endorsement from President Obama in this radio ad that’s getting…
• Time for closing arguments via advertising. The National Republican Senatorial Committee runs a spot going after Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan using Kay Hagan’s 2008 campaign observations. The Hagan campaign…
• In an ad for the independent group Our America PAC, outspoken Louisiana state Sen. Elbert Guillory has a message for black voters: “Send [Sen.] Kay Hagan home.” http://youtu.be/iyVM1SVLh2k •…
• From the War on Women to the War on Highways? The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is out with a new ad, attacking Republican Senate nominee Thom Tillis for supporting…
• Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Sean Haugh gets an unexpected boost from the American Future Fund, a Koch-brothers group, with a series of ads highlighting Haugh’s support of marijuana legalization.…
It has been received wisdom for months — almost to the point of the election headlines having already been written — that Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate Sean Haugh was…