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Millions in outside ad spending to shape N.C. Supreme Court races

While N.C. Supreme Court candidates are busy pledging to take politics out of the judicial branch, several dark money groups backing both sides are injecting millions of dollars worth of ads into the races. Those ads tie the candidates to hot-button issues like abortion, crime and law enforcement funding.

By Ray Gronberg

October 20, 2022

Follow The Money: Federal campaign fundraising

Third-quarter campaign finance reports are in for the U.S. Senate and congressional races, giving us a look at the health of the campaigns entering the final month of election season.

By Ray Gronberg

October 18, 2022

A website oops for Supreme Court candidates

An essential checklist item before launching a political campaign is to make sure you’ve registered websites for YourName.com. If you don’t own the domain name that most closely matches your name, your opponents will quickly snap it up.

By Ray Gronberg

October 17, 2022

National Democrats spending big to help Don Davis

By most metrics, North Carolina’s 13th district congressional race (Republican Bo Hines versus Democratic N.C. Sen. Wiley Nickel) is considered more competitive than the 1st district congressional race, where Republican Sandy Smith faces Democratic N.C. Sen. Don Davis.

By Ray Gronberg

October 14, 2022

Campaign Spotlight: House District 25

Republicans have fallen short for several cycles in their efforts to win more legislative districts around Wilson and Rocky Mount. They’re hoping the political environment this year could mean vulnerable Democratic incumbents in this area.

By Ray Gronberg

October 14, 2022

No debate in key congressional races

Speaking of debates, Friday’s event may have been one of only two televised debates in North Carolina this year. In the 11th congressional district, N.C. Sen. Chuck Edwards debated Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara on Monday night, but I’m not aware of any others.

By Ray Gronberg

October 12, 2022

Senate debate features politeness, few fireworks

I’ve got a confession to make: I didn’t watch Friday’s U.S. Senate debate live. I was out to dinner with my family at 8 p.m. on Friday, kicking off the weekend – and I suspect I wasn’t the only North Carolinian doing something else.

By Ray Gronberg

October 12, 2022

Poll Watch: Issue preferences

The latest High Point University poll took a unique approach to polling voters on the key issues in this year’s election: They named a series of topics and asked whether Democrats or Republicans in North Carolina would do a better job handling that issue.

By Ray Gronberg

October 10, 2022

Elections board looks to address bad behavior

The State Board of Elections is still worried about potential problems at polling places involving partisan observers and others who might be disruptive to the process.

By Ray Gronberg

October 10, 2022

Beasley’s big challenge in only U.S. Senate candidate

Tonight is debate night – and the only debate night scheduled – in the U.S. Senate race. Most of the folks that take time on a Friday evening to tune in will be politically active types who already know who they’re voting for.

By Ray Gronberg

October 9, 2022

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