Four more state legislative district polls were released this week in competitive legislative districts — and as a whole, continue to portray a difficult year for Democratic candidates. On Monday, Civitas released results for HD 4, an open seat in Duplin and Onslow counties, rated as a neutral district on the NCPI. Republican Jimmy Dixon [...]
- Aug18
HD 112: Hager (R) 46% – Proctor (D) 36%
In the race to replace the retiring Rep. Bob England (D-Rutherford) in House District 112, Republican Mike Hager leads Democrat Jim Proctor 46%-36% according to the latest Civitas Poll of that district. The district consisting of Rutherford and a portion of Cleveland county is an R+7 district on the NCPI. Many people have theorized that [...]
- Aug18
Teachers Union Buys A Spot Inside Perdue’s Inner Circle
Remember how the National Association of Educators (NEA) spent $2.2 million helping Bev Perdue get elected governor? Well, it looks like it has bought them a seat in her inner circle. From the News & Observer: Dawn Shephard Pope is Gov. Bev Perdue’s new teacher adviser. The governor’s teacher adviser is a liaison between the [...]
- Aug17
Hackney Leads in HD 54
Since we polled Senate President Marc Basnight’s district a couple of weeks ago, we thought it was only fair that we poll House Speaker Joe Hackney’s as well, and Hackney is faring much better than Basnight. Basnight led challenger Hood Richardson by a mere 10 points, whereas Hackney is leading Cathy Wright by 16 points [...]
- Aug12
Even More Whining About Civitas Polling
Another day, another story on some politician whining about Civitas polling. Today’s whiner is Rep. Bill Owens (D-Pasquotank) who tells The Daily Advance that our questions are “slanted”. Here are the questions and results from the poll Civitas conducted in his district. I challenge Rep. Owens to tell us which one of these questions he [...]
- Aug10
Democratic Pollster has Republican in the Lead in HD 49
So much for all the whining on the left that all Civitas does is produce polls favorable to Republicans (they never stop to think that things might actually be that way in reality right now) — let’s see what the knee-jerk reactionaries will say about this one: Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) conducted [...]
- Aug05
District Polling and Race
Apparently some Democrats are unhappy with the district polling we’re putting out the past few months, and according to NC SPIN’s newsletter are questioning the results by saying we are “undersampling minority and young voters.” Well, this is just sour grapes on their part as they search for any explanation for their poor standing in [...]
- Aug05
Voter Opposition to Public Financing Remains Strong
The latest Civitas poll shows more than 3/4ths of NC voters (76%) are opposed to using taxpayer dollars to finance the campaigns of statewide candidates. Full press release here. In fact, even 78 percent of Democratic voters oppose the idea. No wonder there was such a visceral negative reaction from the public when our friends [...]
- 3Jul29
Real Gubernatorial Leadership
As a proud North Carolinian, I can’t recall a time where I’ve ever felt jealousy for anything in New Jersey over anything here at home. Well, NJ Governor Chris Christie is changing my opinion. Just check out this clip: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Two questions for fellow [...]
- 5Jul23
Oh Fitzy…
I try not to respond to most inane ramblings by Chris Fitzsimon over at the NC Justice Center, but since he’s decided to distort the truth and omit critical pieces of information about our polling, I figured it was time. Fitzsimon has been a bit flustered the past few months that we at Civitas do [...]
- Jul21
If It’s Good Enough for Britian’s PM…
Then why can’t Governor Perdue fly commercial every once in a while? British Prime Minister David Cameron trekked across the pond on a commercial British Airways flight and saved his country $300,000 in travel costs according to The Sun. Yet, NC Governor Bev Perdue continues to hopscotch around the state and nation in a Department [...]
- Jul21
WRAL/SUSA Poll Explores Cell Phone Only Polling
WRAL released a new statewide poll last week conducted by SurveyUSA which included in its sample, respondents that are believed to be “Cell Phone Only” (CPO) voters. And the findings of the behaviors and impacts on including these voters is rather surprising. Full results of poll here. According to best estimates, somewhere between 20-25% of [...]
- Jul09
Legislative District Polling from This Week
In case you missed any of our press releases on this week’s polling of competitive state House and Senate districts links are below: SD 19: Republican Wesley Meredith leads Democratic Senator Margaret Dickson 42%-38%. HD 51: Republican Mike Stone leads Democratic Representative Jimmy Love 47%-43%. HD 25: Republican Jeff Collins leads Democratic Representative Randy Stewart [...]
- Jul09
“Technical” Corrections Bill Guts Illegal Immigrant DUI Reporting Requirement
It always happens. Every year the General Assembly attempts to make substantive policy changes through the end of session “technical” corrections bill that is designed to only make necessary error-fixing and clarifying changes. This year, the bill SB 1242, would gut an existing provision that requires local law enforcement agencies to report the number of [...]
- Jun28
That Giant Sucking Sound
Coming from your wallet is the Global TransPark. Profiled yesterday nicely in the N&O. So many great lines in the piece like: “a government project long criticized for receiving lots of taxpayers’ money but having little to show for it” or “it was supposed to attract Spirit suppliers and other aerospace companies to the TransPark” [...]
- Jun25
District Polling Roundup
In case you missed any of our releases on state legislative polling (you can sign up here), here’s the rundown from this week: In HD 116 (Buncombe County), a rematch from 2008, Republican Tim Moffitt leads Democratic incumbent Jane Whilden 45-38. HD 103 (Mecklenburg County) is an open seat to replace the retiring Republican Representative [...]
- Jun09
It IS Richard Morgan!
Yesterday, we asked if the photos below were of former co-Speaker Richard Morgan clubbing it up at a Raleigh hotspot. Morgan confirmed to various media outlets that it is indeed him, so we’re putting the pictures back up. Here’s the link to yesterday’s post: http://civitasreview.com/miscellaneous/is-that-richard-morgan/
- Jun08
Obama Taking Blame for Oil Spill
The frustration in President Obama’s voice is apparent. It’s so bad, he’s dropping expletives on the Today Show. (Way to be a role model! Get frustrated, kick someone’s ass… great lesson for kids.) With the results of a new Gallup poll shows that only 40 percent of Americans approve of his handling of the oil [...]
- Jun03
We’re Government, We Know Better Than You
Unbelievable. The state Senate voted 39-5 to let the Robeson County town of Pembroke impose a tax on hotel rooms there.The only hotel in Pembroke, a 62-room Holiday Inn Express, opposes the tax, which would be 3 percent of the price of a room and be levied in addition to the 7.75 percent sales tax. [...]
- Jun02
New Regulations Scrap July 4 Fireworks
You may remember last year, in a typical knee-jerk legislative overreaction to a tragic accident, the General Assembly passed, and Gov. Perdue signed into law SB 563, which implemented new measures to regulate, permit and require training for all fireworks shows in the state. Well, with annual July 4 fireworks displays just around the corner, [...]