2020 Election

I wrote last week on Senate Bill 326, which includes several important reforms to North Carolina’s election laws, including: Stoping the privatization of election funding Requiring absentee ballots to be returned by election day Providing funding to help people get voter IDs…

With NC State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell’s appearance before the NC Senate Elections and Redistricting committee yesterday, this is a good time to remember that a federal judge found that she had violated the Equal Protection Clause of…

President Biden has work to do with likely North Carolina voters. The new Civitas Poll shows a majority don’t like the direction of the country, while North Carolinians are split on Mr. Biden’s performance. But take a look at the strong disapproval data. (emphasis is mine) More than half…

Bob Anderson writes for the Federalist about a final verdict in the legal battles surrounding the 2020 presidential election. On Monday, without comment, the Supreme Court ended the last of the 2020 election cases, rejecting Trump v. Wisconsin Election Commission in a one-line order. It was a quiet…

From Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking poll: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, Sponsored by SLANTEDfrom Sharyl Attkisson, for Thursday shows that 49% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove. The latest figures include 33% who…

Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking poll shows President Biden is already losing ground when it comes to the trend for strong disapproval (see chart below). Here are the toppling results for Friday. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, Sponsored by SLANTEDfrom Sharyl…

NC State Board of Elections (SBE) Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell spoke to the NC House Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform committee yesterday. While the main topics were a review of the 2020 election and her recommendation that municipal elections scheduled for this year be postponed until next year,…

Bob Dylan. Lindsay Buckingham. Stevie Nicks. Bloomberg Businessweek reports these three are among the rock stars who’ve recently sold rights to their music. Dylan, who’s pushing 80, evidently has said no for years but recently decided to cash in with a $300 million deal. This kind of sale isn’t…