By Staff Reports | Tue, 05/01/2012 - 5:41pm
ELON, N.C. -- Two years after the passage of a law that fundamentally restructures the nation’s health care system, more North Carolinians remain sour about the law and believe it will make the health care situation in the United States worse in the long run, according to the latest Elon University Poll.
›Read More
By Staff Reports | Sat, 04/14/2012 - 8:14pm
 |
Watt Jones
|
RALEIGH, N.C. – A months-long shroud of secrecy slipped away late Friday in an unfolding scandal one Democratic Party official in North Carolina says might threaten everything from his party's efforts to defend gay marriage to its chances to hold on to the governor's office this fall.
›Read More
By Staff Reports | Fri, 03/30/2012 - 2:40pm
RALEIGH, N.C. – Sky-high unemployment rates continue to rock North Carolina, creating ongoing uncertainty from job markets to retail spending to political campaigns. No fewer than 80 of North Carolina's 100 counties have an unemployment rate in excess of 10 percent, according to figures released last week by the state's Department of Commerce.
›Read More
By Staff Reports | Tue, 03/06/2012 - 7:14pm
ELON, N.C. -- On the eve of a scheduled presidential visit to Charlotte, N.C., 48 percent of North Carolinians say they wouldn't vote to give Barack Obama a second term, according to the latest Elon University Poll.
The 45 percent who say they do approve of his job performance, however, is a slight improvement from September 2011, when Obama’s job approval stood at 42 percent.
›Read More
By Staff Reports | Sat, 02/18/2012 - 8:30am
RALEIGH, N.C. – Susan Bryant, the Republican Party chair in North Carolina's second largest county, stood alone on Friday in defense of her comment to an annual gathering of GOP stalwarts in which she referred to Democratic Governor Bev Perdue as "the dumbest governor in America."
Pat McCrory, Perdue's 2008 Republican challenger and his party's likely nominee this year said in a statement he didn't agree with Bryant and would not condone her remarks, according to campaign spokesman Brian Nick.
›Read More
By Staff Reports | Mon, 04/16/2012 - 4:31pm
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- State Rep. Bill Faison of Durham, Lt. Governor Walter Dalton of Rutherfordton, and former Congressman Bob Etheridge of Lillington, the three major candidates for the Democratic Party's gubernatorial nomination, will debate Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m, according to UNC-TV Director of Production Shannon Vickery.
›Read More
By Staff Reports | Tue, 04/10/2012 - 2:22pm
RALEIGH, N.C. – Given their new majority status in both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly, it came as little suprise to find Republicans taking all 10 of the highest effectiveness rankings in the state Senate and 12 of the top 15 spots in the state House, according to the latest rankings of legislators’ effectiveness released yesterday by the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research.
›Read More
By Staff Reports | Wed, 03/14/2012 - 3:05pm
RALEIGH, N.C. – A majority of North Carolina voters say they support a constitutional amendment that establishes marriage between one man and woman as the only recognized domestic legal union in the state.
Sixty-four percent of respondents said they support a constitutional amendment that says marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in the state. Thirty percent said they oppose it and six percent are undecided or do not know.›Read More
By Staff Reports | Tue, 02/28/2012 - 9:37am
ATLANTA, GA – More voters oppose the controversial new U.S. government requirement that U.S. employers or insurance companies provide women with birth control coverage at no incremental cost to the user, according to a newly released poll.
Lacking support from any demographic except within his own party, the issue may become a drag on President Obama's campaign during what is expected to be a tough re-election fight.
›Read More
By Staff Reports | Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:51am
RALEIGH, N.C. – Most North Carolina voters, 85 percent, think state House and Senate leaders should be limited in the number of terms they serve.
All legislators currently serve two-year terms. Fifty-one percent of voters think legislators should be limited to serving four years or less in a leadership position. Seventy-one percent said they should be limited to six years or less.
›Read More
|
|
