Biography
John Davis is a political analyst, writer and consultant who has followed North Carolina politics for 25 years. He is one of the state’s leading authorities on evaluating the strengths of candidates and predicting the outcome of political races. During the five election cycles since the beginning of this decade, Davis projected the winner in 942 of 982 North Carolina campaigns, for an accuracy rate of 96%.
During the 2008 election year, Davis was an early voice arguing that the political forces of generational change and the anti-establishment mood of the voters were working against older Washington insiders like Senators John McCain, GOP nominee for president, and Elizabeth Dole. He was one of the rare few who saw North Carolina as a new presidential battleground state, boldly projecting Barack Obama as the likely winner when most national pundits were calling the state for McCain.
Davis is a highly sought after state and national public speaker, and appears frequently on TV and radio news programs. He is quoted regularly by leading political reporters, and is widely considered an authority on North Carolina’s state legislative and congressional districts.
Davis’ 30-year political career includes 23 years as President of NCFREE, a non-partisan, political research organization, where he served as Editor of the Almanac of North Carolina Politics. He has helped business leaders in over half of the states in the U.S. create political research organizations, and is co-founder of the USA Roundtable, a national association of state business political professionals organized in 1986.
Davis is president of John Davis Consulting, where he writes a weekly political report called the John Davis Political Report. In addition to his consulting and weekly reports, Davis is working on a book titled, The Fall of the Magnolia Curtain, the breakthrough story of the first African Americans, women and Republicans to win statewide campaigns in North Carolina since the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era in 1870.
A native of Graceville, Florida, Davis is a graduate of William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He and his wife, Kathy, live in Raleigh. They have five grown children.
