Nate Silver's NYT column give NC the treatment: In North Carolina, Obama’s 2008 Victory Was Ahead of Schedule By MICAH COHEN The choice of Charlotte as the host city for the Democratic National Convention may seem unremarkable. President Obama carried North Carolina by fewer than 14,000 votes in 2008, making him the first Democrat to win the state since 1976. The Obama campaign hopes the convention … Read More
North Carolina Now A Toss-Up: CNN
CNN Monday turned the important battleground state of North Carolina from "lean Romney" to true "toss up" on its Electoral Map, following the release of a new CNN/Time Magazine/ORC International poll that indicated the race for the state's 15 electoral votes was a dead heat.
Escaped Monkey Enjoys Independence (Day)
Local news: Winston-Salem, NC– Officials with Animal Control and and Veterinarians with Wake Forest Baptist are in Davidson County searching for a monkey. Wake Forest Baptist tells WFMY News 2 that the animal is about the size of a domestic cat and it escaped from an animal housing area on Friday. As of Wednesday, officials with the research facility told the Associated Press … Read More
Hitting The Wrong Button: Fracking Is Now Legal In NC
First, a little background on "fracking". Fracking is media term applied to a process known as Hydraulic Fracturing. It is a process that creates fractures in rocks to force natural gas, water, and oil reserves trapped 5,000 to 20,000 feet below the earth up to the surface. Hydraulic fractures may occur naturally, via volcanic dikes, sills, ice; or they can … Read More
Romney Leads in NC
Rassmusson Reports: Mitt Romney continues to hold a small lead over President Obama in the key swing state of North Carolina. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Tar Heel State finds Romney earning 47% support to Obama’s 44%. Three percent (3%) like some other candidate in the race, while six percent (6%) are undecided. (To … Read More
Swept Under The Rug
It is a particularly dark chapter in North Carolina history. Between 1929 annd 1974, an estimated 7,600 North Carolinians, both men and women, were sterilized under the authorization of the North Carolina Eugenics Board, according to the N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation. Many of those people were minorities, poor, undereducated, institutionalized, sick or disabled. Between 1,500 and 2,000 victims of state … Read More
Joe Biden in Winston-Salem
As I type this, Joe Biden is a couple of blocks away, speaking in the building where I used to work up until last year. Of course, back then, the building was a piece of sh*t — little more than a warehouse converted into offices. Now, the place has been refurbished, and is a state of the art medical research … Read More
Republicans In NC Legislature Solve Global Warming Problem
North Carolina Republicans have come up with a novel strategy to combat a future threatened by a rise in sea levels, which scientists agree will continue to accelerate thanks to global warming: Pass a law pretending it won't happen: The bill has not yet been introduced, but the language in the version being circulated would make the Division of Coastal Management the only … Read More
Anderson Cooper Is All Over This Pastor Worley Thing
This is good…. But this is an instant classic… THe website "Dangerous Minds" wonders aloud if this is the "dumbest American alive"
The Response To Pastor Worley
Much to North Carolina's shame, another NC pastor has shown his ass. Earlier this month, Sean Harris, the pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, gained controversy after telling parents they should punch gay-appearing children. But he backtracked. And now comes Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church — located at 3283 Providence Mill Rd, Maiden, NC 28650. He … Read More
You Can’t Unring A Wedding Bell
Note: I wrote this on Monday morning, May 7, convinced of a loss. Probably 15 points, right? Doesn't matter. This I know to be true; that's why I wrote it. As of this morning, there are an estimated 150,000 married same-sex couples in the United States. They are not "civil-union"ed. They are not in a "domestic partnership". They are "married" … Read More
Amendment One Poised to Win
No change in polling over the weekend. It's likely to win only because people don't understand it, according to PPP: Our final marriage amendment poll finds it leading by a 55-39 margin, little change from a week ago when it was ahead 55-41. The final yes percentage will likely be somewhere in the 57-59% range depending on how the undecideds break. Opponents … Read More
North Carolina Is Now Birther Central
ThinkProgress: North Carolina is apparently ground zero of the latest resurgence of the birther movement, as a number of Republican candidates in the state are expressing doubts about President Obama’s birthplace. ThinkProgress has previously noted that Richard Hudson, running for a congressional seat in the state’s 8th district, said Obama is “hiding something on his citizenship,” while the Charlotte Observer rescinded … Read More
State Senator’s Wife: Amendment One Is Needed Because The Caucasion Race Is Diminishing
Holy crap! I won't say much because the "state senator" works in the same law firm as me, but the gist is that the senator's wife…. oh, hell. Roll it, Think Progress: The wife of a prominent North Carolina state senatorand supporter of Amendment 1 — a proposed ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships in the state … Read More
As You Might Suspect, Amendment One Proponents Are Funded By Religious Right And Anit-Gay Groups
Jeremy Hooper points out that almost all of the top donors supporting North Carolina’s discriminatory Amendment One, which limits what relationships the state can recognize, are from radically conservative religiously-affiliated groups. It’s true that opponents of the measure have raised twice as much money, but it’s telling that they have raised four times as much money from individual donors. Over 70 percent of Vote FOR Marriage NC’s campaign fundraising … Read More