Carter is a Republican. Gary is a Democrat.

They met in 1984, during the epic U.S. Senate battle between Jesse Helms and Jim Hunt. Carter worked for Helms and Gary, for Hunt.

Years later, they became friends. They even worked together on some nonpolitical clients.

They enjoy talking about politics. So they started this blog in 2005.

They’re still talking. And they invite you to join the conversation.

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A Mirror: Two Thousand Years Ago

By Carter Wrenn 2021-02-24

Locked in his prison cell in Rome Saint Paul wrote Timothy: In the last days…men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, slanderers, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure… Lying in bed the other night reading that I thought, The end times may be closer than I thought. But it turned out…

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The Blessed Silence

By Carter Wrenn 2021-01-15

I remember a thin, tall, blonde boy, back in high school, who’d set his tray on the table in the cafeteria, start talking – and he couldn’t stop; mocking a girl’s dress, a football player’s stammer, a math teacher’s hairdo he’d talk on and on. Trump likes to talk too. Morning, noon and night he’s…

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Election Nights

By Carter Wrenn 2021-01-13

In the old days, when we all voted on election day, election nights had a kind of normalcy – votes trickled in, then rolled in, but huge puzzling swings were rare. Then early voting started and unexpected swings began to happen on election nights. For some reason Democrats like voting early while Republicans prefer walking…

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Looking Back at Georgia

By Carter Wrenn 2021-01-11

Our nightmare came true. Democrats won the Senate. According to the exit polls more Republicans voted in Georgia than Democrats (Republicans: 38%, Democrats 34%) – which meant if the two Republican candidates each got 50% of the Independent vote, they’d each win by four points. They lost Independents 57-43%. Why? Most people walking around on…

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Telling Republicans He Won…

By Carter Wrenn 2020-12-11

President Trump said he won Pennsylvania – but three Republican federal Circuit Court Judges ruled his Pennsylvania lawsuit had “no merit.” Trump appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court – it told him no. Republican judges in Georgia and Wisconsin said no to pro-Trump lawsuits. Trump turned to the Republican Governors in Arizona and Georgia to…

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No More Kowtowing

By Carter Wrenn 2020-11-24

Trump tweeted “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it”…four years later he tweeted Biden stole the election – Rudy Giuliani told us vote stealing computers turned millions of ballots cast for Trump into votes for Biden. Fox howled, CNN howled, brawls broke out on Social Media, tweets spread howls like infections; turning against Tucker…

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What Happens Next?

By Carter Wrenn 2020-11-02

Glaring at a President, thinking, I don’t like you but, at least, you’re not lying to me…that’s a pillar (of democracy) called the Public Trust. Nixon breached the Trust, had to resign. Now Biden lies, Trump lies…but one will be President. If the pillar vanishes…   What happens next?

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Bone Deep

By Carter Wrenn 2020-10-30

Joe Biden, doddery Washington politician, both for and against fracking; Trump slams Fauci; Giuliani says Hunter Biden had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl; Two tribes. One loves Trump; one hates him. CNN, and Fox, stir both. Social media pours gas on the fire. Trump’s tribe roars, If Biden wins our country’s doomed; Biden’s tribe…

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Better Angels

By Carter Wrenn 2020-10-29

Trump boasted, ‘I fight for you harder than any president has ever fought for anyone’ – the video flew across the internet, landed in my inbox with a two-line stab: Remember George Washington fighting for eight years during the Revolution – and at Valley Forge? Staring down from the stage at a legion of admirers,…

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A Simple Question

By Carter Wrenn 2024-03-27

Hamas stormed into Israel, killed men, women, and children. Shocked Israelis thought, We’re no longer safe.…

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Plagues

By Carter Wrenn 2024-03-26

Plagues have been around since the time of the Pharaohs: What caused the plague that killed…

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Both Sides Now?

By Gary Pearce 2024-03-26

Democratic heads exploded over this story in The News & Observer last week: “The two candidates…

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