The wrong relationships
Pat McCrory’s Oedipal relationship with Aldona Wos was on full display yesterday as the governor wept at her departure. It was quite a contrast with Tata’s lonely exit last week. No press conference...
View ArticlePat McCrory’s Re-Election Prospects Grow Dim
Now we know why the sharks came. They weren’t driven to North Carolina by warm water currents or the delicious sight of fun-noodling tourists. No, our toothy friends smelled blood on Blount Street,...
View ArticleCooper Redistricting Flip-Floppery
While the redistricting wars are going on in the courts, the NC GOP continues to remind people that Roy Cooper was once the ‘redistricting king’, even though he now wants to put a nonpartisan...
View ArticleSome Good News for the Gov from PPP
According to Public Policy Polling, Governor McCrory is locked in a tight race with prospective Democratic nominee Roy Cooper in the 2016 gubernatorial race. But unlike previous surveys, McCrory...
View ArticleAnd they’re off!
For years, North Carolinians joked that election season officially began when the media and others started speculating on what Roy Cooper was going to do. He passed on several Senate races and...
View ArticleWe’re #2!
Here’s a piece of good economic news: Forbes magazine has ranked North Carolina as the #2 state in the nation for businesses and careers. Utah came in first. A large part of the magazine’s methodology...
View ArticleFirst ads
The first ads of the gubernatorial campaign are out. Americans for Prosperity are thanking Governor Pat McCrory for cutting taxes while Real Jobs NC, an Art Pope funded group, is giving conservatives...
View ArticleThe Keiths to success
I emerged from a week of fog caused by a nasty respiratory illness just in time to read the N&O’s disturbing and remarkable story of apparent corruption in the McCrory administration. While...
View ArticlePat McCrory: A Legacy of Failure and Corruption
Pat McCrory is like Where’s Waldo, except nobody cares where he is. To call him “disappointing” is an understatement worthy of Oxford. Only a description like this capture the scale of his ineptitude:...
View ArticleWhore Wars
If you thought North Carolina politics can get a bit rough sometimes, you might want to take a trip down to Louisiana, the setting of a very ugly governor’s race. Here’s the backstory: Louisiana is a...
View ArticleCooper Joins the Dark Side
Roy Cooper is getting a lot of flack from progressives for largely taking the same stance as Governor McCrory on the refugee matter. Actually, flack is not a good word. More like anger, disappointment,...
View ArticlePopular Pat?
According to the website Morning Consult, Pat McCrory is Mr. Popularity. Their survey of North Carolina voters (part of a poll of over 75,000 voters nationally) the governor has a 51% approval rating....
View ArticleA victim of whining
Pat McCrory is continuing his fight with the media and portraying himself as a victim of coordinated attacks meant to take him down. He’s released a video implying a vast left-wing conspiracy that...
View ArticleThose Pesky Primaries
You wouldn’t know it from the headlines, but technically the nominees for governor haven’t been decided yet. In fact, no one has even filed. But there’s a good chance McCrory and especially Cooper will...
View ArticleWhen was Pat McCrory laid off and unemployed?
Pat McCrory released a re-election video yesterday and it opens with an interesting story. He says that one of the hardest days of his life was when he had to tell his wife that he had lost his job....
View ArticleMcCrory versus the Fourth Estate
Pat McCrory kicked off his re-election campaign yesterday with an attack on the News & Observer. He’s selling bumperstickers that read “I don’t believe the Raleigh News & Observer.” It looks...
View ArticleMcCrory’s spin in the twitterverse
It looks like Governor Pat McCrory got the keys to his twitter account this weekend and took it out for a spin. On Saturday afternoon, McCrory tweeted, “Press always wants to psychoanalyze &...
View ArticleAssessing Brawley
For Governor McCrory yesterday, it was a mixed bag. On one hand he got a poll from Public Policy Polling showing him with a 2-point lead over Roy Cooper. That’s not much, but it’s better to be ahead...
View ArticleSteppin’ on Toes – as Vice President?
Governor Pat McCrory got some rare buzz over the past few hours as a potential vice presidential pick – for Donald Trump, specifically. It’s rare to hear veep speculation about the governor because...
View ArticleBrawley’s Challenge
“The governor believes the bill is unnecessary.” That seemingly anodyne sentence is Robert Brawley’s best hope at the nomination. However wildly remote, it’s possible to imagine a scenario where...
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