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It's Never Easy Trying To Understand Why Racist GOP Voters Vote For The Likes Of Mark Robinson Of NC What to make of Republican voters in NC making Mark Robinson their gubernatorial nominee?� To be honest, I don’t�understand it.� I lived in NC for nearly 17 years, and I worked in a rural county —
by Merlin196360
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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We talk about North Carolina non-stop on "The Downballot," so it's only natural that our guest on this week's episode is Anderson Clayton, the new chair of the state Democratic Party. Clayton made headlines when she became the youngest state party...
by The Downballot
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on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 12:27 PM PST
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When North Carolina’s state Supreme Court struck down conservative-gerrymandered election maps saying that they were in conflict with the state’s constitution, the belief that something ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Somehow it’s September already, which means all sorts of things to all sorts of People Everyday. To me, it means that campaign season is really kicking into high gear. Which means it’s time to talk about Virginia … … soon! To be super honest, stuff...
by Carolyn Fiddler
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on Fri Sep 01, 2023 at 03:10 PM PDT
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I saw this news item�on MSNBC, and I thought I would share some of what I read in a NYT piece on now REPUBLICAN NC State Representative Tricia Cotham.� She’s infamous for switching party ...
by Merlin196360
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on Tue Aug 01, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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You may have heard about this: the lawsuit an alleged jilted husband filed against the NC Speaker of the House. To provide a bit of context/background here: 1. These lawsuits for “alienation of affection” and “criminal conversation” are known as...
by Skorpio18
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on Tue Jun 20, 2023 at 06:11 PM PDT
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North Carolina Republicans gained a veto-proof supermajority in the state House after a Charlotte-area Democrat announced Wednesday she was switching parties. State Rep. Tricia Cotham, who won as a Democrat in her blue district last fall by nearly 20...
by tln41
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on Wed Apr 05, 2023 at 12:05 PM PDT
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Barack Obama's historic 2008 landslide victory turned Virginia and North Carolina blue at the presidential vote for the first time in 28 years. Since then Virginia has become a solid blue state with Democrats winning nearly every federal election...
by ModLeft
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on Thu Apr 06, 2023 at 11:21 AM PDT
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Through this series, I hope to keep the Dkos community informed in a single location on what the numbers and experts say about the state of the midterms. At the same time, it’s important to keep perspective. Polls are going to be off; pundits are going...
by psychbob
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on Sun Oct 16, 2022 at 07:41 AM PDT
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Through this series, I hope to keep the Dkos community informed in a single location on what the numbers and experts say about the state of the midterms. At the same time, it’s important to keep perspective. Polls are going to be off; pundits are going...
by psychbob
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on Sun Oct 09, 2022 at 08:08 AM PDT
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Midterms are often represented as a referendum on the incumbent president. There was endless news coverage in the spring and summer about Biden’s low approval ratings, an ominous sign for the midterms. But several things have happened to cast this...
by psychbob
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on Sun Sep 25, 2022 at 07:32 AM PDT
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This legislator was given a seat through the NC Supreme Court invalidating the Congressional maps in 2020. Once again, the court invalidated the new maps for 2022, and made sure that her seat was fairly protected. It still could fall in the right...
by bilboteach
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on Fri Sep 16, 2022 at 04:10 AM PDT
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Cheri Beasley, the Democratic Senate candidate in North Carolina, just threw down the gauntlet! In an entirely unexpected action this morning, Beasley announced the launch of a joint fundraising effort to help Democrats hold the Senate. Rather than...
by AWildLibAppeared
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on Mon Aug 22, 2022 at 12:13 PM PDT
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This State Senator, like many in the Research Triangle, is a transplant (or “damn Yankee” as the locals call them). The district is finely balanced on a knife edge, and is such that either party ...
by bilboteach
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on Mon Jul 11, 2022 at 04:10 AM PDT
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If there’s one thing the right-far is going to do, it’s terrorize kids. On the big picture scale, we know conservatives have been rallying around anti-trans issues in order to garner votes in the upcoming midterm elections and we know trans youth—and...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Thu Jun 23, 2022 at 11:51 AM PDT
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Welcome to my diary series titled Majority Savers! I will run a new article every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday starting next week. The goal of this series is to highlight races that may make or break our current slender majorities in Congress. That...
by bilboteach
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on Mon Jun 13, 2022 at 04:10 AM PDT
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BREAKING: Video of Madison Cawthorn Apparently Face-F**king His Cousin Surfaces. Really. Yes, Really Haven’t seen a story up about this yet, so I’m posting it here now. It’s true, by the way. Sources: www.mediaite.com/… www.dailydot.com/… abc7ny.com/... If someone else beat me to it, I’ll take this diary down.
by Toro Blanco
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on Fri May 06, 2022 at 05:31 AM PDT
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Subscribe...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Tue Apr 19, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Insurrectionist James Little of NC is going to jail for at least 60 days. � For those who may not know or have forgotten James Little,
by Merlin196357
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on Mon Mar 14, 2022 at 04:58 PM PDT
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Be careful when you make an online plea for supportive letters asking for leniency when you are pleading guilty to a crime.� This is the lesson insurrectionist James Little discovered when he posted ...
by Merlin196357
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on Fri Mar 11, 2022 at 01:41 PM PST
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