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Re: CQ: Burr race a toss-up

Gosh — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:46:00 -0400

Is this you Paul Terrell?

Yes, please give Richard Burr advice.

Re: CQ: Burr race a toss-up

PaulTerrell — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:35:05 -0400

A close race in NC turns to Burr's favor on one statement.

"If you think the government is out of control now, just give Pelosi, Reid, and Obama a filibuster proof majority in the Senate".

Re: Ross, Silver take the gold in punditry

AwakeReader — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:45:52 -0500

So what? Please use a little critical thinking on this point. It means nothing to predict the race. It helps no voters or citizens to hear endless daily polls in the press. Why do we have these polls? What if we had no polls reported until the actual poll on election day? In that case we would actually hear from the campaigns on the issues. Wow, what an idea! Please think of who actually benifits from all the polling and you will see why we don't need it. Prediction is not a science, it is opinion. All these Obama predictors could have been made wrong by any overnight incident that got out the last days of the campaign, and then all the McCain predictors would have won. It means nothing. It harms our political life.

Re: Ross, Silver take the gold in punditry

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:30:11 -0500

I'll have another post up sometime today on the results of the office pool.

— RTB

Re: Ross, Silver take the gold in punditry

DustinIngalls — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:26:43 -0500

I'd like to point out that my office pool prediction for this blog was remarkably close to the actual result: 49.8% for Obama, 49.3% for McCain, and 0.8% for Barr. Actual result, last I checked: 49.7% for Obama, 49.4% for McCain, and 0.6% for Barr.

Re: PPP Poll: Governor's race a toss-up

pickingperdue — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:42:22 -0500

Concerned 53, please get some sleep...you are getting jaded. Why must you insist on every single tiny endorsement being listed for McCrory be put on this blog? Maybe you could poll the big banks or Duke Power and say they are for Pat.
Please refer to Charlotte Observer's Ballot Box today: McCrory has lost any edge he had in early October and Perdue has been ahead in every poll (including Civitas) for the last 4 weeks. A one point loss is the same as a 50 point loss; Perdue still wins.
Hopefully, you will get some much-needed rest after Perdue wins tomorrow night, and go back to working for the mayor. Let Perdue handle the Governor's office.

PPP Poll: Governor's race a toss-up

concerned53 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:43:05 -0500

McCrory has pulled within one point in the most recent democatrically backed Public Policy Poll. This improvement for McCrory is despite changes to the make up of those polled that would favor Perdue versus McCrory as they increased the percentage of women, African-Americans and respondents in the east versus the west.

Ryan, any reason you are not reporting this or Henry Hinton endorsing McCrory? You seem to be promoting anything that is in Perdue's favor.

Henry Hinton endorsed McCrory

concerned53 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:30:44 -0500

Add Henry Hinton, radio host of "Talk of the Town" in Greenville as he endorsed McCrory today. Why not Beverly?

Re: Rankings on the governor's race

wolfpackalum — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:51:17 -0500

Public Policy Polling came out with a new poll today that had McCrory's strength picking up since their last poll on October 28th. This is particularly interesting when you look at the cross tabs. McCrory's strength from the last poll to this one as increased despite the fact that PPP increased the percentage of females surveyed by 3%, increased the african american percentage of respondents by 1%, decreased the percentage of respondents in the 704 area code by 2%, increased the respondents in the 252, 910, and 919 area codes by 3%, 1%, and 1%. To me those numbers indicate a McCrory victory.

Re: Rankings on the governor's race

domewatcher — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:23:10 -0500

Detroit is in a mess and the automakers are facing dire economic straits. And right here in North Carolina our beloved automatic Democratic governormakermachine may have picked the wrong candidate.

Detroit has long been selling cars that the consumers have not wanted to buy. For years we had no other choice. But when choices came the consumers have turned to other models with more features.

Hopefully the voters of North Carolina turn to another model rather than the one the Democratic automatic governormakermachine is offering. We do have a choice between the same old model and something new. Hopefully a McCrory win will speed up the overhaul of the old Democratic machine. It's time.

Re: Rankings on the governor's race

BethStanhope — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:05:08 -0500

The jaw dropping thing about Bev Perdue is that even though 2 Perdue fundraisers on the Dept. of Transportation board have resigned this year in shame, the last one as recent as September, she still continues to take money from other DOT board members. She promised an office of "transparency" and a "transformation" of the DOT after the last guy had to resign but 4 days later she took more campaign contributions from another DOT board member. She accepted $17,000 from DOT board members in the last quarter of campaign finance reporting. Does that sound like transparency to you? Does that sound like she is going to clean up corruption in Raleigh or continue the corruption? Perdue still has the DOT board in her back pocket. It's time we stop the corruption in Raleigh.
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Re: NYT, CQ: N.C. is a presidential toss-up

pearl89 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:54:50 -0400

I for one hope that NC votes for Obama. He has run a much more dignified campaign than McCain/Palin. I was very disappointed that McCain picked SPalin as his running mate. Not by any stretch of the imagination is she qualified to VP. I also check Mudflats and Alaska Daily News every day and for what I can gather Alaskans don't even want her back. If this is the type of decisions, not to mention all his flopping, McCain makes; I don't want him. McCain has essentially been running for president for 10 years. You would think by now he would know how to run a campaign and if he can't run a campaign any better than he has the last 2, I don't think he can run a country.

Re: Should comment rules be changed?

captainjack — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:07:11 -0400

I believe that some are getting over sensitive. Why not discuss all the issues. Say what you may and let the chips fall where they may. No need to change the rules. Keep up the good work.

Re: Should comment rules be changed?

Prototype — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:51:10 -0400

I think your rules are fine as they are.

If someone makes a comment that I do not like I can immediately repudiate the comment. I doubt too many will change their views or vote based on the information contained in the comments posted here.

Re: Should comment rules be changed?

bnartist — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:53:47 -0400

If you are considering a Nazi rule please review Godwin's Law.

By 2007, The Economist had declared that "a good rule in most discussions is that the first person to call the other a Nazi automatically loses the argument." And in October 2007, the "Last Page" columnist in The Smithsonian stated that when an adversary uses an inappropriate Hitler or Nazi comparison, "you have only to say 'Godwin's Law' and a trapdoor falls open, plunging your rival into a pool of hungry crocodiles."