Oct 28 Full interview: Gwen Ifill with U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis By Merrill Schwerin At a campaign office in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sunday, Thom Tillis, The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, told a group of volunteers that he was recently at a televised football game where, after long delays between plays on the field,… Continue reading
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Oct 23 Watch Why did no one flag UNC’s bogus classes? By PBS News Hour For more than 18 years, thousands of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took credit courses that never met as a class with a professor; a disproportionate number of the students in those classes were athletes. Continue watching
Oct 16 Florida out of the gate at start of early voting By Bill Barrow, Associated Press ATLANTA — Midterm elections are almost three weeks away, yet more than 904,000 Americans already have cast their ballots, with almost 60 percent of those early votes in Florida, according to data compiled by The Associated Press from election officials… Continue reading
Oct 14 How to watch the 2014 midterm debates By Anya van Wagtendonk With one month left in this year’s midterm elections cycle, debate season is officially upon us. Many of these events promise tension and excitement in a year where control of the Senate is up for grabs. Continue reading
Oct 14 Republicans winning the ad-spending race By Domenico Montanaro, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Conservative outside groups are outspending Democratic-leaning ones, $191 million to $130 million this cycle, the Washington Post’s Matea Gold reported Monday. Overall spending on everything from ads to keeping the lights on, combining both House and Senate races, has hit… Continue reading
Oct 13 GOP spends $6M more on North Carolina Senate race By Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press The group dedicated to winning a Republican U.S. Senate majority in November says it's more than doubling its investment supporting North Carolina GOP nominee Thom Tillis' campaign to unseat Democrat Kay Hagan. Continue reading
Oct 09 Justices uphold North Carolina’s voting restrictions By Michael Tomsic, WFAE The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that North Carolina can move forward with voting restrictions this November. Here's a breakdown of what it means. Continue reading
Oct 07 WATCH LIVE: North Carolina Senate debate By Anya van Wagtendonk North Carolina is one of three “firewall” states that Democrats are banking on to help them hold the Senate -- so tonight’s debate between incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan and N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) is bound to get… Continue reading