The World Holds its Breath -- WE KNOW THE RESULTS
Obama has a lead that can overcome the Bradley effect or snow, sleet or rain, or the pundits constant need to keep this thing alive by mentioning obscure polls that show McCain getting closer.
Obama has a lead that can overcome the Bradley effect or snow, sleet or rain, or the pundits constant need to keep this thing alive by mentioning obscure polls that show McCain getting closer.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
***Check Back For Updates And Results As They Become Available*** ***UPDATE, 11/4 8:54 pm*** CNN and NBC project that Kay Hagan has defeated Elizabe...
Wes Isley | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
Q&A with Wade Boyles For someone who had never volunteered for a political campaign until this year, Wade Boyles, 36, of Winston-Salem, N.C., hasn't ...
Yuna Shin | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home
Wilmington, N.C. -- Polls have shown Obama slightly ahead of McCain in North Carolina for the last few weeks. Can this be true? North Carolina has n...
Val Strange | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Cindy McCain filed by, ignoring me also. But I didn't let her off the hook, either. She eventually, and without looking, spared me her left hand.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Unless something gargantuanly unexpected happens, if they call Virginia for Obama, you will know at that moment that he is the next President of the United States.
Erik Ose | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
During the '84 NC Senate race, one of Helms' top aides responsible for implementing a gay-bashing strategy was McCain advisor Charlie Black.
Wes Isley | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home
Greensboro, NC--Since North Carolina has emerged as a battleground state in the presidential race, it's getting difficult to keep up with which candid...
Joan and Elizabeth Cheever | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home
JOAN: It began with the news of voter list purging. Ten days ago, the media identified six "swing" states as having "problems" with voter registratio...
New York Times | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
In Florida's "butterfly ballot" debacle of 2000, voters in Palm Beach County were so confused by the odd layout that many appear to have voted for the...
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home
DURHAM, N.C. -- On a drizzly Saturday outside Durham, almost 1300 residents waited for ten to forty-five minutes outside Southwest Elementary School t...
Erik Ose | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.
Howie Klein | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
If any member of Congress personifies a willingness to sell out his constituents' economic interests for the sake of special interests, it is Robin Hayes.
Tim Ayers | Posted 11.23.2008 | Home
We as a nation cannot truly progress so long as there exists a critical mass of partisan peoples who feel the need to demonize one another. Blind partisanship that is driven by malice and contempt is a sad state of affairs and potentially dangerous.
Think Progress | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
The North Carolina Republican State Executive Committee has sent out homophobic mailers targeting Senate candidate Kay Hagan (D), who is challenging S...
Burns Strider | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
Palin has decided that you are not a real American, maybe you are even anti-American, if you either don't have the same views as they do or you are from the wrong part of the nation, or both.
Erik Ose | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
In the wake of McCain-Palin visits to North Carolina, a string of election season crimes have occurred around the state involving violence, vandalism, and harassment.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
At a polling site in North Carolina there was a group of loud and angry protesters who shouted and mocked the voters as they walked in. Nearly all were white.
The News And Observer | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media
A Greensboro reporter was knocked to the ground at the Sarah Palin rally Thursday. Greensboro News-Record reporter Joe Killian was attempting to inte...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
By Stephen C. Rose If Barack Obama becomes president, it will be because of grass roots organization. The people who will make the difference on Nove...
Yuna Shin | Posted 11.16.2008 | Home
One Stop Early Voting started on October 16th in North Carolina with great fanfare. In New Hanover County, which is sandwiched between the Cape Fea...
Bart Motes | Posted 11.16.2008 | Media
Websites cannot substitute for the hard work of grassroots campaigning: particularly phone banking and canvassing. But they can augment the work of local organizers and volunteers.
Martin Nolan | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
Shouldn't a president be concise on issues? Candidates seem to ignore the signals of blinking lights, so let's install an emphatic alarm that sounds somewhere between a fart and a fire engine.
Steve Parker | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
Hey, guys and gals! Pack extra suds into that cooler and a heavy load of chew when y'all head down to Lowes Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolin...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media
As unforgettable as a haunting mountain ballad, Serena unfolds like a brilliantly conceived cautionary tale and mediation on the dark corners of unbridled lust to profit at any cost.
Linda Bergthold | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics