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Opinion: A Veteran Takes on a House Incumbent — and Other N.C. Political Tales

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Purplish-red North Carolina is hard to figure out. That may be why national eyes tend to watch local, state and federal races for clues of political trends, particularly whether or not the Donald Trump phenomenon is fading. Or perhaps it’s just the state’s unpredictability and the entertainment value of its outsize personalities who […]

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GA and SC Special Elections

Featured at WCCB Rising / Mary Curtis

CHARLOTTE, NC –Republicans now hold all four congressional seats up for grabs in this Spring’s special elections. Republican Karen Handel won Georgia’s 6th congressional district in Tuesday’s special election. The House race between Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff was the most expensive in history with a combined $50 million. Ossoff hoped to flip the long-held

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Opinion: Democrats May Be Too Optimistic About 2018 Gains

Featured at Roll Call / Mary Curtis

The redrawn congressional districts in North Carolina turned out to be too racially driven for a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives — with Justice Clarence Thomas siding with the majority. Who’d have thought it? But the fact that it’s arguably a toss-up, in some judges’ reasoning, how much the Republicans in the state legislature used race

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Washington Politics: A Hint of Compromise or North Carolina-Style Dysfunction?

Featured at Roll Call / Mary Curtis

Though the year has just begun, there are already signs that the partisan power struggle in Washington will not benefit from a fresh start or optimistic resolutions of renewal. “I want to say to the American people: We hear you. We will do right by you. And we will deliver,” said re-elected House Speaker Paul Ryan,

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Mia Love is black, Mormon, Republican and blowing people’s minds

Featured at The Washington Post / Mary Curtis

Mia Love is already getting more attention than most of her newly elected congressional colleagues. She is Haitian American, a woman, daughter of immigrants, Mormon, Republican and from Utah, all things that she seems eager to boast about, except when she isn’t, as those who contrasted her post-election speech with a subsequent CNN interview noted.

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