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PPP: Obama, Perdue lead in NC

The leaders in PPP's newest set of polls for the Democratic primary are Barack Obama, Bev Perdue, Kay Hagan, Pat Smathers, Janet Cowell, June Atkinson, and Beth Wood.

More McCrory Silliness

When someone attacked Public Policy Polling on the Under the Dome blog, I googled to see if I could find out who it was. The answer was quite interesting.

New PPP numbers for the Democratic Primary

PPP released its newest polling numbers for the Democratic primaries today. They bring good news for Bev Perdue and bad news for John Edwards.

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PPP: Governor General Election Numbers

Democrats would win six of eight possible match ups for Governor in 2008, according to Public Policy Polling's newest survey.

PPP: Edwards would be strongest candidate in NC

Last week PPP tested nine potential general election matchups for President in North Carolina. John Edwards was the only candidate to go 3 for 3.

PPP: McHenry's Standing Falling

PPP did a poll in August and then again this week about the attitudes of 10th Congressional District voters toward Patrick McHenry. The results were pretty interesting!

PPP: December Democratic Results

The December primary tracking poll results for the Democratic side are now available. Click here for complete results.

Here's a snapshot:

Perdue 41
Moore 32
Undecided 27

PPP: Wake County Transfer Tax Poll

You can see our full poll results here and a commentary from Public Policy Polling President Dean Debnam about what it means for future transfer tax referendums here. Here are partial numbers:

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Perdue, Moore, and state employees

There's been a mini controversy brewing about polling, state employees, and the ceaseless Perdue/Moore bloodbath.

Bill Graham's camp already race baiting?

Cross posted here

I was stunned to read the following attack on Republican Gubernatorial candidate Fred Smith on the facebook group of Bill Graham's campaign:

Bad News for Fred Smith!

Fred was a registered Democrat from 1974-1995
He also voted in every Democratic primary during that time. On the 1980 Democrat Presidential Primary ballot was:

President Jimmy Carter
Sen. Edward Kennedy
Jerry Brown

The 1984 Democrat Presidential Primary ballot included Walter Mondale. The 1988 ballot was led by Michael Dukakis and the 1992 ballot was led by Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. The 1990 primary ballot included US Senate candidate Harvey Gantt.

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The Pickens Plan


2 billion dollars for Wind Power...so that we can burn domestic natural gas in our cars...I think.

TrueMeckDem on Myers Park Pat

"My opinion of Pat has changed over the years. I used to think he was truly a man of the people but the longer he has been mayor, the less I think of him.

As with most cities, Charlotte has three political parties: Dem, Rep, and Chamber of Commerce. Pat is definitely the puppet of the COC here. What is good for business is good for Charlotte and Pat ... very personable guy, he has gotten a bunch of Dems in these parts to vote for him but I don't trust him."

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