Elections

For the second time in the campaign, all three candidates for U.S. Senate appeared on the same stage to answer questions from voters. This time, it was a candidate forum held by the N.C. Agribusiness Council on the closing day of their 41st annual leadership conference yesterday in Durham. Republican Sen. Richard Burr, Democratic...
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Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Mike Beitler told the North Carolina Latino Coalition Assembly yesterday that he supports amnesty for illegal immigrants and a pathway to citizenship. “I challenge my opponents to take the same stand,” he said. “The role of government is to protect us from criminals, not immigrants,” Beitler said. “Immigrants, whether classified...
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Libertarians are challenging the view that Democrats are the only people who care about issues important to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. To explain why, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate Dr. Mike Beitler has invited members of the LGBT community to meet with him Saturday in Greensboro. The meeting will be at...
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Vice President Joe “Potty Mouth” Biden was in Chapel Hill yesterday to raise money for the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates. At one event in the exclusive Carolina Inn, people paid $500 to eat hors d’oeuvres of crab crostini and spinach and goat cheese profiteroles. For those who pay a little less for food,...
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Mike Beitler is building on the success of a fellow academician turned Libertarian candidate as he seeks to unseat U.S. Sen. Richard Burr. “In the past, much of the energy of the Libertarian Party has been spent just trying to break the establishment ballot access laws,” he said. “Professor Mike Munger made tremendous inroads...
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The Tea Party Movement has often been called fragmented and ineffective. That is natural for a grassroots movement, composed of a variety of organizations and groups across the nation. To at least partially remedy this, the Constitutional Freedom Alliance is inviting North Carolina Tea Party movement members and groups to an organizational and planning...
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Sen. Richard Burr’s closing remarks in the first U.S. Senate debate summed up the tone and substance of the event. “I like these two opponents,” the incumbent Republican said. “We’ve got differences and over the next few months, everybody in North Carolina is going to have an opportunity to choose somebody that more aligns...
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In what may be a first for North Carolina politics, the first debate of the 2010 U.S. Senate election will include all ballot qualified candidates. The N.C. Bar Association is sponsoring a debate in Wilmington tomorrow which will include Libertarian Mike Beitler, incumbent Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Elaine Marshall. News 14 Carolina will...
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The director of the State Board of Elections is predicting a less than 100,000 voter turnout for today’s primary. He’s being optimistic. My prediction is that not only will the state set a new record for low voter turnout, the establishment candidates will win the nomination of their respective parties. That means Elaine Marshall...
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One of the benefits of a parliamentary democracy like the United Kingdom is the general openness to multiple parties. British voters don’t seem to get confused by more than two parties on the ballot. On the contrary, a third party helps expose corruption and malfeasance, as Dr. Mike Munger notes in this op ed...
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