RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans are taking both a data-driven and hand-to-hand approach to target key voters in the battleground state whose electoral votes are historically decided ...

“North Carolina is, and always has been, a divided state,” writes Dr. Chris Cooper of Western Carolina University in his recent book, Anatomy of a Purple State: A North Carolina Politics Primer.

North Carolina crashed the swing state party in 2024, especially after Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden atop the Democratic presidential ticket. All along, political ...

Only about 30% of North Carolina legislators next year will be women. Data in a new book on state politics shows women are underrepresented at all levels of elected offices here.