Despite holding the relatively obscure office of the Commissioner of Labor, Cherie Berry has become one of the most well-known and beloved politicians in North Carolina history. With a funny name and omnipresence in state elevators, no politician in modern North Carolina history has seen such an unusual cult following.
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Democrats feel confident that Republican Kris Kobach facing the Democratic front runner, State Senator Barbara Bollier, would lead to a competitive race in Kansas, but unfortunately for Democrats this is likely not the reality. Kobach is weaker than other Republicans, but there is no reason to believe that he is weak enough to lose a seat the GOP has held since 1932.
Change is officially coming to Pennsylvania’s state house. Mike Turzai, the current Speaker of the House, officially announced his retirement this Thursday, meaning that there will be someone new in the speaker’s chair come 2021.
To a casual observer of American politics, it might be confusing what constitutes a “battleground state” in a presidential election. For instance, in the most recent presidential election, a state might have voted one way by as much as double-digits, but pundits talk as if it might vote the other way in the next. Why would the state in question be treated as competitive?
There is one place in the US that has been, and is likely to remain, highly underrated in it’s importance. The place I’m referring to, surprisingly, is Nebraska, and more specifically its 2nd congressional district, which has been allowed to give its single electoral vote separate from the rest of the state.
There’s been a lot of talk throughout the past year about “electability” in the Democratic primary. More Democrat voters than…
Almost all analysts believe that the “tipping point” state will be either Wisconsin or Arizona, but this narrow view of the map is short sighted. There is one state that is in the sunbelt, it’s blue trending, nearly saw a Dem breakthrough in 2018, and it’s not Texas. It’s Georgia.
When pundits talk about the 2018 midterms, two dominant storylines often emerge: the Democratic gains in the House of Representatives,…
Mark Meadows shocked the political world today when he announced he would not be running for another term as representative…
For the longest time Central Pennsylvania, and Lancaster County especially has been one of the most politically inelastic areas in the nation and has been considered a bedrock of Pennsylvania conservatism. That wisdom is beginning to change though, and Democrats have begun to feel that they might have their best ever chance in the county.