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PPP: Election Good For Both GOP and Dems

Posted on 04 November 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From PPP

In the end the 2009 elections in North Carolina told us very little about 2010.
There were good signs for Republicans:
-Energized conservatives turned out in large numbers for the Wake County School Board races, electing all of their candidates and defeating an incumbent Democratic Raleigh City Councilman in the process.
-Defeated Democratic Mayor Yvonne Johnson in Greensboro, [...]

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Drought Politics

Posted on 29 October 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From Media General News Service

Winston-Salem Journal Editorial
During the summer of 2002, while North Carolina suffered through a serious drought, then-Gov. Mike Easley pleaded with residents to conserve water.
Turn off the faucet while you shave and brush your teeth, the governor suggested. His aides set up public-relations events where he walked through parched farm fields and lamented [...]

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Poll: Voters Disapprove of Perdue Trip

Posted on 27 October 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From NBC17

RALEIGH, N.C. – A new poll released today by the Civitas Institute that shows nearly three-fourths of voters disapprove of Gov. Bev Perdue’s journey to Japan and China.
Perdue returns from her trade mission today.
The live caller poll of 600 likely 2010 voters were asked if they approved or disapproved of Gov. Perdue spending $80,000 to [...]

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Ramussen Poll: Burr Tops Foes by 10 or More

Posted on 17 September 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From Ramussen

BY RAMUSSEN
Richard Burr’s U.S. Senate seat has a recent history of high turnover, but the incumbent Republican holds double-digit leads over three Democratic challengers in an early look at North Carolina’s 2010 Senate contest.
The first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey in the Tar Heel State finds Burr ahead of longtime Secretary of State Elaine [...]

Civitas Poll: Voters Divided on Obama Health Care Plan

Posted on 08 September 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From Civitas

BY CIVITAS
RALEIGH, N.C. – With President Barack Obama set to address Congress Wednesday evening to plead his case for overhauling the health insurance and health care industry, a new Civitas Flash Poll released today finds voters deeply divided on their support for the plan.
According to the poll of 662 registered voters, nearly an identical number [...]

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Answers Column: Why Was Kennedy Buried at Arlington?

Posted on 03 September 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From NBC17

Q. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was buried near his brothers John and Robert in Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia. How is this possible? I thought that only military personnel were buried there. – D.P.
A. Kennedy was eligible for burial in Arlington because he was a former member of the Armed Forces and a U.S. [...]

PPP: Voters Unhappy with Congress

Posted on 02 September 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From PPP

In your average election year incumbent members of Congress running for reelection get a share of the vote somewhere in the upper 60s. But our newest national poll finds that if there was an election today, only 47% of voters in the country say they would vote to reelect their current Representative, with 33% saying [...]

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Column: Health Care Reform is About Who You Trust

Posted on 01 September 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From NBC17

By Davon Gray
Media General News Service
If you want good television drama don’t watch the usual prime time channels. Instead, just tune into C-SPAN for a health care town hall meeting. I watched one in particular – that of Congressman Gerry Connolly. Fortunately, that town hall meeting was relatively quiet, albeit it took place in a [...]

Kennedy-Falwell Dinner a Meeting of Left and Right

Posted on 27 August 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From NBC17

By Darrell Laurant
Media General News Service
The main thing I remember from my Oct. 3, 1983, interview with Ted Kennedy was that he seemed nervous.
We were seated at a table on the concrete shore of the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s swimming pool – just me, the now-late Massachusetts senator and photographer Mark Bailey. Maybe [...]

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