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 [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
- Oct10
Killing the Deregulation Canard
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 [...]
- 2Oct09
NC Poll: Obama +5
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 [...]
- Oct09
NC Poll: McCrory +2
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 [...]
- Oct09
A Train From Goldsboro to Greensboro?
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 [...]
- Oct09
The Plane!
In honor of Gov. Easley canceling the the purchase of a new airplane for the state: