When Carter assessed Hillary and Obama last week, he identified a key factor in campaigns: the political skills of the candidates and the people aroun...

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It may be a sign of the apocalypse that the first real clash in the Democratic presidential race came not over Iraq or universal health care or taxes,...

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Governors and Presidents usually start thinking about their legacies as their terms near the end. Mike Easley should start thinking.  Because hi...

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Robert Penn Warren said it best in All the King’s Men: “Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to ...

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Political campaigns are built around six basic resources:  1) money; 2) time; 3) a candidate; 4) the people who work – or volunteer – in the camp...

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Global Warming has joined ‘the earth is flat’, ‘the sun revolves around the earth’, and ‘disease is caused by humors in the blood’, as a scientific fa...

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A collection of progressive groups (some even call themselves liberals) says a recent North Carolina poll found strong public support for some of th...

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Bill O’Reilly, interviewing a young lady defending John Edwards, asked with his usual bombast: Would you have fired the bloggers if you were Edwards? ...

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Here’s a commentary on the state of Presidential politics. John Edwards has chosen the theme song for his campaign: John Mellencamp’s “This is Our Cou...

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