Attacking the Polls

By Gary Pearce | 2012-10-02 |

Republicans unhappy with Obama-leaning polls are resorting to what one wit called “the time-honored practice of making things up.” Led by Dick Morris, they engage in imaginative re-engineering of poll results to make things look better for Mitt Romney.   I asked a Democratic pollster I trust about the Republican revisionism. His reply:   “I…

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“No Party” Wins

By Gary Pearce | 2012-10-01 |

If you wonder which party is riding a voter registration tide, here’s your answer: Neither. More than half of the new voters in North Carolina are Unaffiliated. Since December 2011, some 266,000 new voters have registered in the state. Of those, 53.4 percent (142,209) registered as Unaffiliated. Slightly more registered Republican than Democratic – 61,903…

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