We’ve had McCrory with a two point lead for the past month and now it’s closed back up to a tie. McCrory – 43%Perdue – 43%Munger – 2%Not Sure – 12% Full results and crosstabs here. Perdue has turned it around and picked up points by closing the gap with unaffiliated voters. This one is [...]
- Oct21
Civitas Poll: Hagan Maintains Lead
State Sen. Kay Hagan maintains her 3 point advantage over Sen. Elizabeth Dole in our October poll. Hagan – 44%Dole – 41%Cole – 4%Not sure – 12% Full release and crosstabs here. Interesting phenomenon with this race, the number of undecided voters is going up. Are voters just getting sick of the attacks by both [...]
- 1Oct21
You Don’t Want to Meet Bill
Great new ad from the US Chamber of Commerce on the falsely named "Employee Free Choice Act" (aka card check bill).
- Oct21
Civitas Poll: Obama +3
Obama’s lead of 5 points two weeks ago is now down to 3 according to our latest poll. Obama – 48%McCain – 45%Barr – 2%Not Sure – 7% Full release with crosstabs here. Reminder to sign up for our Polling Results and Analysis email list here. (If you have done so already, you’d have our [...]
- Oct20
Early Voting Turnout
A lot of people are asking me about turnout so far at early voting where African-Americans are turning out in much higher numbers than many expected. (I think as of Monday morning, African-Americans were 33% of turnout so far). A couple of things: 1. I think this is just early intensity of African-Americans wanting to [...]
- Oct20
Civitas Poll Special Edition – SE NC
We did something a little different last week and polled Southeastern NC — more specifically Columbus, Brunswick, Pender and New Hanover counties. The reason for special attention to this area is this four county region encompasses two of the more competitive and interesting NC Senate races this year as two Democrat incumbents, Julia Boseman (Senate [...]
- 1Oct17
Hawaii Ends Universal Health Care for Children
Obviously a lesson for NC and 48 other states. Hawaii has decided to end it’s universal children’s health insurance program less than a year after its implementation. Gov. Linda Lingle’s administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage [...]
- 2Oct15
Registration and Voting at One-Stop
Just a reminder that if you are not registered to vote, you can still do so and cast a ballot at the same time beginning tomorrow. All you will need to bring with you to vote is one of the following pieces of "identification": A North Carolina driver’s license with current addressA utility bill with [...]
- Oct15
ACORN, Fraudulent Registrations, et al.
I’m sure you’ve read a lot in the media over the past couple of days regarding the widespread voter fraud operation being headed by ACORN. The NC State Board of Elections has already identified at least 135 fraudulent registration applications, and we’ve seen NC’s lax residency requirements already make some national blogs. But what EVERYONE [...]
- Oct15
Polling Early Voting
I’ve started seeing a couple of post on some polling websites (here and in the comments here) attempt to infer election trends from Survey USA’s poll of NC that was released last week. SUSA asked a question of whether the respondents had voted already or not. A couple of problems — their poll was conducted [...]
- Oct15
Banks Saying “No Thanks” To Gov’t Bailout
Many smaller banks nationwide are telling the government to keep its money according to this article in the Washington Post. Good for them, fighting off government handouts and socialistic tendencies. But it appears that the government may attempt to force some banks to accept government assistance whether they like it or not. And a lot [...]
- Oct14
Economic Troubles Good for Taxpayers?
Is the current economic slowdown actually good for taxpayers? Well, in one instance it is. The freeze in the credit markets is forcing many levels of government to delay issuing bonds (running up debt). First, Wake County cancels a $454 million bond sale. Now, the NC Turnpike Authority is unable to sell bonds to build [...]
- Oct13
Polling the Bailout Bill
In the poll we conducted last week, we asked if voters approved of the bailout bill and whether it would impact their vote in Congressional races this year. Coincidentally, I was recently a guest on WRAL’s Headline Saturday discussing much of the same. Watch it here. Back to the results: Do you support or oppose [...]
- 2Oct10
Civitas Poll: Lt. Gov. Race Unchanged
Dalton maintains a 6 point lead over Pittenger from our last poll in September. It is now 40-34. Full release here.
- 1Oct10
Civitas Poll: Hagan +3
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 [...]
- 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:
- Oct07
3%? Why Stop There?
Gov. Easley is now saying a 3 percent reduction in spending may be necessary if tax revenues continue to slow. Why stop at 3%? Let’s go ahead and cut 5 or 10%. I’m sure that just a good start. Why don’t we start with Easley giving back the $1 million he spent on television promoting [...]