State Rep. Verla Insko plans to attend a White House reception next week that is being held to recognize state lawmakers working on health care reform.
Insko, a Chapel Hill Democrat, is one of 40 lawmakers participating in the White House State Legislators Working Group on Health [...]
The latest polling from Public Policy Polling of the South Carolina gubernatorial race shows the Republican candidates with comfortable over the Democrats. AG Henry McMaster at this point seems to be the best prospect for the GOP as he leads Democrats Jim Rex 40 - 31, Vincent Sheheen 41 [...]
Frank Roche, a Republican who wants to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. David Price next year, is making an issue out of charges brought against three Navy SEALs stemming from an allegation of prisoner abuse.
The SEALs have been charged in connection with an incident [...]
A grand jury in Columbus County has found probable cause to indict state Sen. R.C. Soles Jr. on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury in connection with an August shooting at Soles' Tabor City home.
Soles, 74, a Democrat, is the longest-serving [...]
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr does not plan to return his "blue slip" on U.S. attorney nominee Thomas Walker until the current investigations into two of the state’s most prominent Democrats are completed.
Burr informed President Barack Obama of his decision through the White House counsel’s office, Barb [...]
Talking Points Memo picks up on some spilled acid from Madam Foxx's recent interview with the Winston-Salem Journal. Democrats have no ideas, sez she, so they talk about character, including, we assume, hers.
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards doesn't have long to wait for the book he isn't waiting for.
"The Politician" will be published by Thomas Dunne Books on Feb. 2, according to Amazon.com.
The author is Andrew Young, the one-time aide who claimed to have [...]
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan specifically mentioned Cary-based SAS as a company that could provide the federal government with software designed to prevent health care fraud.
Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, said the company doesn't have an inside track on getting a federal contract. She said she was using [...]
Former State Sen. Cal Cunningham has made a splash in the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.
Cunningham entered the race this week after months of consideration and announcing he would not run. But all that dithering may have paid off because it's Cunningham that the [...]
Over at Public Policy Polling Tom Jensen is comfortable with where President Obama is in the polls because “His approval rating with liberal Democrats is 95%”. I don’t know if I would hang my hat on that. In his own national survey the breakdown is:
Q8 Would you describe [...]
N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall said Wednesday she is committed to next year's U.S. Senate race despite the death of her husband and a key national group's backing of another candidate.
"I'm in this race to stay," Marshall, a Democrat, said in interview Wednesday [...]
Rush Limbaugh has long maintained that the stimulus bill did nothing but create a Democratic slush fund. Reports are showing he’s right (as he is 99.4 percent of the time):
Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.
Federal [...]
State Sen. David Hoyle, one of the most powerful lawmakers in the Senate, plans to retire.
Hoyle, 70, a Gaston County Democrat who has been in the Senate for 18 years and is consistently placed near the top in effectiveness rankings of legislators, said he will [...]
While the General Assembly gets ready to vote for whether or not to impeach Governor Sanford, several pollsters have been reporting surprising opinions from the electorate. Overall, South Carolinians aren’t all that supportive of throwing Sanford out of office. Democrat pollster Public Policy Polling shows that 58% of the [...]
As health care reform legislation makes it's way through the Senate, Dome will track votes by the state's Senators, Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Kay Hagan.
ABORTION LIMITS: Limit insurance companies that are participating in a federal insurance exchange from covering abortions. The Senate voted to table, [...]
With everything going on in Greensboro, it’s easy to forget that the Winston-Salem City Council has a new look, though pretty much in name only:
In some ways, the local election was influenced by the national election last year. The campaigns of new Democratic council members D.D. Adams, Derwin Montgomery [...]
These are headlines no Democratic candidate wants to see:
A former governor under investigation for corruption, a top Senate Democrat accused of insider trading, a current governor with approval ratings in the 40s and a big tax increase to cope with the biggest budget shortfall [...]
