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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]