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 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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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 II: Liabilities 5 – 6

by johndavis, May 12, 2010

Part II: Liabilities 5 – 6 NC Republicans do not have to raise the political bar closer to that of Democrats to seize power in 2010 if Democrats lower their political bar closer to that of Republicans. This is Part II in a series of reports suggesting that the North Carolina Democratic Party is much
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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 I: Liabilities 1 – 4

by johndavis, April 29, 2010

Part I:  Liabilities 1 – 4 NC Republicans do not have to raise the political bar closer to that of Democrats to seize power in 2010 if Democrats lower their political bar closer to that of Republicans. Toyota Motor Company has lost market share because of worldwide recalls of millions of its cars due to management mistakes
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Cannon to the Right of Them, Cannon to the Left of Them; SEANC’s Dana Cope went Rogue before Palin made it Vogue

by johndavis, April 22, 2010

“If the effort [North Carolina First political party] does manage to get on the ballot, expect candidates in U.S. House races in Districts 7 [Democrat Mike McIntyre], District 8 [Democrat Larry Kissell] and District 11 [Democrat Heath Shuler]. They’re the homes of the three Democratic members of Congress who voted against their party’s healthcare bill.”
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Archbishop Tutu on Growing Corn and Changing Government; Tea’d and looking for something to throw overboard

by johndavis, April 9, 2010

“Americans’ favorable rating of the Democratic Party dropped to 41% in the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, the lowest point in the 18 year history of this measure.”[i]    USA Today/Gallup poll, April 8, 2010 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end apartheid in South Africa, told the following story when he spoke
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