Monthly Archives: October 2008

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    Oct
    10

    Civitas Poll: Hagan +3

    Posted in Polling By Chris Hayes

    Kay Hagan has now taken her first lead in our polls since we began polling this race in May.  She now leads 45-42. Full release here. It appears some of the support that originally was peeled off of Dole that had gone to the Libertarian candidate, has now made the full move over to Hagan [...]

  2. Oct
    10

    Killing the Deregulation Canard

    Posted in Uncategorized By Civitas | Tagged

    Consider the following: 1. One man – with the help of a few government wizards – controls interest rates for everybody. Why is this so? It causes easy money and boom/bust cycles that don’t reflect economic reality.2. The tax code builds in special protections for people to invest in real estate.3. HUD, Fannie Mae, Freddie [...]

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    Oct
    10

    Truth to Power?

    Posted in Politicians & Politicking By Civitas

    Truth is dead.

  4. 1
    Oct
    10

    Need Health Insurance?

    Posted in Healthcare By Civitas

    Then get some.-Max Borders

  5. Oct
    10

    Not Funny

    Posted in Uncategorized By Civitas | Tagged

    Even the funny papers are sad.-Max Borders

  6. Oct
    10

    Presto!

    Posted in Miscellaneous By Civitas | Tagged

    Brilliant and sad.-Max borders

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    Oct
    09

    NC Poll: Obama +5

    Posted in Politicians & Politicking By Chris Hayes

    And there you have it… After having McCain and Obama tied in our polling two weeks ago, we now have Obama jumping out to a 5 point lead 48-43.  Read the full release here. If you remember, I wrote an article that says if Obama can get 37% of the white vote, he can win [...]

  8. Oct
    09

    NC Poll: McCrory +2

    Posted in Polling By Chris Hayes

    Since we have such an exciting election cycle going on, we decided to do a little extra polling this month and do an interim poll between our normal monthly polls. So we put a poll in the field earlier this week. And we have McCrory still hanging on to a 2 point lead 43-41.  See [...]

  9. Oct
    09

    A Train From Goldsboro to Greensboro?

    Posted in Transportation & Infrastructure By Chris Hayes

    Seriously? There are apparently some people who think this is a good idea.  I guess the one little problem is the price tag:  $1 billion. That’s right, $1 billion, with a "B". Let’s just think about that for one minute, what else could we do with $1 billion than to build a train nobody is [...]

  10. Oct
    09

    The Plane!

    Posted in Budget, Taxes, and Debt By Chris Hayes

    In honor of Gov. Easley canceling the the purchase of a new airplane for the state: