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The N.C. Supreme Court opened the door in 2018 to a potential seismic shift in state government power.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 @ 11:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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You might expect that the 2020 N.C. Supreme Court elections will guarantee plenty of 4-3 rulings in the year ahead.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2021 @ 4:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For the past two years the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) has been mobilizing and organizing to elect lawmakers who are more aligned with the organization’s views on public education.
Published: Thursday, November 19th, 2020 @ 3:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Republicans celebrated wins in North Carolina while remaining focused on future priorities, especially redistricting, school choice, and economic revival.
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 2:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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President Donald Trump and Senator Thom Tillis led Republicans to strong victories across the state in Council of State, judicial and legislative races.
Published: Wednesday, November 4th, 2020 @ 5:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Of all the important electoral contests on North Carolina’s ballot this fall, our General Assembly races will be among the most consequential.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 @ 11:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The most important elections in North Carolina are the races for the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2020 @ 10:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2016 presidential campaign turned me into a judiciary junkie.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 12:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Yes, the N.C. Court of Appeals just upheld the state’s voter ID constitutional amendment.
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2020 @ 4:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Do you know who you’re voting for?
Published: Friday, August 28th, 2020 @ 1:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2020 election season starts unofficially today at noon, with the opening of candidate filing for most races.
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2019 @ 10:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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NCGOP Will Elect A New Chair At Convention In June
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 12:06 am
By: Daniel Bunting
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In late 2016, as Gov. Roy Cooper was preparing to take office, the General Assembly decided it would change the makeup of the Bipartisan Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement
Published: Saturday, December 8th, 2018 @ 9:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you expected the 2018 midterm elections to settle all scores and clarify all unanswered political questions in the era of Donald Trump, you were just asking for disappointment - and that's what voters gave you
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2018 @ 2:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's 2018 election cycle may be considered a "blue moon" - but Democrats aren't just standing around without a dream in their hearts
Published: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 @ 3:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed four Democrats and four Republicans to the new merged board overseeing state elections and ethics enforcement
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal judge ordered North Carolina to reinstate partisan primary elections for state Court of Appeals and Supreme Court races, but left intact the part of a state law eliminating District Court and Superior Court primaries
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2018 @ 2:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Representative Justin Burr obviously has a burr under his saddle, almost single-handedly leading an effort to redistrict the judicial and prosecutorial districts in our state
Published: Wednesday, August 30th, 2017 @ 11:19 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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According to initial voting returns, Republican legislators seem likely to keep clear control of the North Carolina General Assembly, losing one seat overall in the House of Representatives but gaining a seat in the Senate
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2016 @ 10:42 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As Democrats and Republicans actively contest North Carolina's governorship, U.S. Senate seat, and 15 electoral votes for president this fall, don't expect them to ignore other races on the ballot
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2016 @ 10:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a basic concept: Limit comparisons to items that can be compared reasonably. But too much of today's political discourse relies instead on apples-to-oranges comparisons, those comparisons that are unreasonable or perhaps impossible.
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2016 @ 6:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two aspects of the 2014 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 3:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Months ago, as the 2014 election cycle was shaping up as a good one for Republicans, the Democrats in North Carolina resolved to buck the trend. They had a great deal of help
Published: Thursday, November 6th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Civitas Partisan Index has been updated to show the political balance of power in North Carolina as revealed in the 2012 elections.
Published: Monday, February 10th, 2014 @ 9:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Beaufort County Commissioner Gary Brinn offered the false narrative that I, somehow miraculously, had swung 180° to a position that only he could know in his "heart of hearts": 'I had decided that I was in favor of Limited Voting; it was the only way I could get elected.'
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 3:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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