Late Breaking Trends – Tuesday, August 31, 2010

by johndavis, August 31, 2010

Click the Play Button Below for an Audio Summary [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Key Trends and their Impact on North Carolina’s 2010 General Election Races Advantage Democrats Advantage Republicans “Republican average weekly advantages over Democrats during August are higher than any previous midterm Republican advantage in Gallup’s history of tracking the generic
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Late Breaking Trends – Friday, August 27, 2010

by johndavis, August 27, 2010

Click the Play Button Below for an Audio Summary [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Key Trends and their Impact on North Carolina’s 2010 General Election Races Advantage Democrats Advantage Republicans “I understand that intellectually,” said Obama, “but this is my life and career.  And I think I could probably do every job on
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Late Breaking Trends – Tuesday, August 24, 2010

by johndavis, August 23, 2010

Click the Play Button Below for an Audio Summary [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Key Trends and their Impact on North Carolina’s 2010 General Election Races Advantage Democrats Advantage Republicans “North Carolina Republicans have an asset this year Democrats don’t have: Tom Fetzer.[i] Democratic consultant Gary Pearce, Talking About Politics, The Fetzer Factor,
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Late Breaking Trends – Week in Review

by johndavis, August 20, 2010

Click the Play Button Below for an Audio Summary [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Key Trends and their Impact on North Carolina’s 2010 General Election Races Advantage Democrats Advantage Republicans “Democratic operatives trying to raise money for expensive ad campaigns report that the wealthy liberals (and, to some extent, labor unions) who wrote
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Late Breaking Trends – North Carolina’s Daily Partisan Political Advantage Forecast

by johndavis, August 18, 2010

Click the Play Button Below for an Audio Summary [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Key Trends and their Impact on North Carolina’s 2010 General Election Races Advantage Democrats Advantage Republicans President Obama’s job approval reached a new weekly average low, with only 44% of American voters approving of how the president is managing
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Late Breaking Trends – North Carolina’s Daily Partisan Political Advantage Forecast

by johndavis, August 17, 2010

Click the Play Button Below for an Audio Summary [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Key Trends and their Impact on North Carolina’s 2010 General Election Races Advantage Democrats Advantage Republicans High unemployment this fall, coupled with high underemployment and high anxiety among the employed, is a potentially lethal concoction of political variables for
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Late Breaking Trends – North Carolina’s Daily Partisan Political Advantage Forecast

by johndavis, August 11, 2010

Key Trends and their Impact on North Carolina’s 2010 General Election Races Advantage Democrats Advantage Republicans “These are Obama voters. These are not Democratic voters.”  Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher, Washington Post:  August 13, 2010 President Obama’s “Job Approval” ratings at the beginning of his administration hovered at 70% in most national polls, with less than
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The Hunt for the Republican Jim Hunt. Helms went to DC. Hunt stayed home; the NC GOP’s worst nightmare.

by johndavis, June 24, 2010

“Hunt criticized the Democratic controlled General Assembly for raising taxes in 1991 during the recession, saying the budgetary shortfall was ‘sheer government mismanagement.’”[i] Rob Christensen, News & Observer, The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics Twenty-five years ago, in Washington DC, U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican, was beginning his third term in the
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Is the NC Democratic Party the Toyota of State Politics? Top 10 Political Liabilities Leading to Loss of Voter Market Share; Part V: Liability 10

by johndavis, June 11, 2010

Part V: Liability 10 “What’s disappointing to me,” said Stupak, “is learning that Toyota seems to have focused more on discrediting its critics than on solving the problem.” Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, May 20, 2010, U.S. House Commerce Committee Hearing on Toyota’s sudden acceleration problems[i] Obama: Walking on Oily Water in a Sea of Disappointments
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Is the NC Democratic Party the Toyota of State Politics? Top 10 Political Liabilities Leading to Loss of Voter Market Share; Part IV: Liability 9

by johndavis, June 3, 2010

Part IV: Liability 9 “The Toyota affair emphasizes some basic points of management. First, any company, no matter how large and how famous for its merits, can stumble into grave error. Second, damaged pride and nervous fear make it difficult to correct the error in good time. Third, management decisions should normally never be taken
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