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Re: Health care battle brews in N.C.

jeffreyhsykes — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:38:07 -0400

Please sign my petition to Kay Hagan in opposition to the public choice option. It will be delivered to her later this summer.

Re: Ask Dome: primary elections

gercohen — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:50:30 -0400

In 1915 or 1917 the General Assembly passed the Primary Act to make holding primaries a state responsibility, to make it uniform, and to regulate the conduct of the primary. Prior to that there was a hodgepodge of party run primaries, caucuses, conventions, and mass meetings to nominate candidates. There are some states where primaries (especially presidential primaries) are a party responsibility. Candidate filings fees of 1% of the salary are used to defray some of the costs in North Carolina.

Federal law does not require primaries for federal elections, but if the state does have primaries there are various federal rules that apply, including campaign finance, military and overseas absentee voting and assistance to voters at the polls

Ask Dome: primary elections

PlaybyPlay — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:53:51 -0400

Why is tax revenue used so parties can determine who they will nominate for an election. Shouldn’t primary elections be the responsibility of the parties to fund and determine how they will nominate their candidates? How did that come about and do the parties subsidize the state for any of the costs for a primary? How much does the state spend for different primary elections? Are there Federal requirements related to primary elections for Federal candidates in a state?

Re: Yes but...

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:28:38 -0400

You are correct.

"For years, 9th District Republican Rep. Sue Myrick lived in Charlotte's Fourth Ward, two doors from Watt's 12th District home." — Charlotte Observer, March 5, 2006.

— RTB

Re: Yes but...

gercohen — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:57:02 -0400

"What about Congresswomen?"

I think that Sue myrick did not live in her district one term in the 90s either.

Re: Yes but...

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:45:29 -0400

Hey, I just answer the questions as I get them...

— RTB

Yes but...

rubyji — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:40:07 -0400

What about Congresswomen?

:-P

Re: Poll: N.C. favors stimulus package

mikec2 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:37:06 -0500

Elon's views seem to be in line with the N&Os. Do you ever do polls from anyone who does not have USSR-envy?

Re: Poll: N.C. favors stimulus package

rmmlem — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:48:08 -0500

Hey people! The poll was taken in and around Elon, the capital area of liberalism of North Carolina. Know nothing students, commie pinko faculty and the surrounding area is full of people that have done nothing with their lives and are always grateful for another handout. That poll is not representative of North Carolina. The election of that idiot was also not reflective of North Carolina values.

Re: Poll: N.C. favors stimulus package

NoNewGunControl — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:19:32 -0500

Most North Carolinians support the federal stimulus package is misleading and not even close to believable...however, most people polled favor the stimulus package sounds accurate enough to suit me. Where does one get a job taking polls? I would be good at it. I could conduct polls and make the results come out anyway you want them to......(just like the people who conducted this one)

Re: Poll: N.C. favors stimulus package

johnnytoot — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:07:26 -0500

The headline link said "Most" support stimulus package. I know 'most' is a nebulous word, but can anyone really argue that 52% = most?

Re: Poll: N.C. favors stimulus package

tarheelcp — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:54:23 -0500

Peter, click the link "Elon University Poll" and you can view most of the data you asked for. It doesn't appear that they collected any demographic data. The most staggering thing to me was that more than 70% of respondents supported raising the cigarette and alcohol taxes. Wow.

Re: Poll: N.C. favors stimulus package

PACK_MIKE77 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:34:28 -0500

Let me get this straight,"When asked who they trusted to do the "best job" dealing with the main issues facing the country46 percent said President Barack Obama, 21 percent said congressional Republicans and 10 percent said congressional Democrats." Obama is a Democrat. The stimulus bill was written and rammed through congress by congressional Democrats and Democrat Obama signed it. Yet Republicans were more trusted with the economy than Democrats. Does anyone else see a disconnect here?

Re: Poll: N.C. favors stimulus package

peterlyon — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:07:21 -0500

What were the questions on the poll? What was the racial makeup of the polled people? What was the economic status of the polled people? Who did the interpretation of the poll results? Elon University is a fairly diverse place in so far as groups who might conduct the poll and their political motivations for conducting the poll? Poll questions can be framed in such a fashion as to elicit the desired responses and desired result. So it is important when reviewing a report of poll results that the Demograpics of the pollees and the questions and responses be tabluated in such a fashion that the reader can determine for him/herself the slant of the poll and the validity of the results!
We can conduct a poll of N&O readers on purchase of the newspaper and come up with a result that 100% of the people polled read at least part of the N&O on a daily basis? Does that translate into 100% of the people in Wake county or in Central NC or in the State read the N&O or for that matter any newspaper at all? 100% is a good result for the advertizing department's sales, but an unfair and untruthful result knowing that the circulation of the paper is declining drastically and may result in furthur budget cuts and therefore cuts in firsthand reports of the news by N&O reporters! Is Bankruptcy near??

Re: Poll: N.C. favors stimulus package

robdarich — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:17:49 -0500

It's an economy of bad choices.

And while knowing how many NClinians think one way or another is certainly a numeric value - it doesn't seem to present anything of value.

NClinians support a lot of things... so what? When exactly did the "Me too" factor suddenly become more than just a marketing ploy?

NClinians voted Jim Black into office - that was a bad idea, then they tolerated an "Ethics Bill" who's only notable feature was to make ethics investigations secret. And now NClinians are chirping about the economy. Seems a little counter-intuative that NClinian's opinons count for anything worthwhile.