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An override vote was held in the House of Representatives on June 11, 2015, achieving the three-fifths majority required by a margin of 69–41. As a result, the measure became law in North Carolina, which is just the second state after Utah to allow for this sort of religious exemption for state magistrates. [47]
Civil unions are being considered in a number of countries, including Kosovo, [63] Peru, [64] the Philippines, [65] and Poland. [ 66 ] On 12 March 2015, the European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution encouraging EU institutions and member states to "[reflect] on the recognition of same-sex marriage or same-sex civil union as a ...
Roy Asberry Cooper III was born in Nashville, North Carolina, on June 13, 1957, to Beverly Thorne (née Batchelor) (1929–2013), a teacher and Roy Asberry Cooper II (1927–2015), a lawyer and Democratic Party operative who was a close advisor to Jim Hunt; he later co-chaired Hunt's successful 1976 gubernatorial campaign.
Johnny Reid Edwards [1] (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who represented North Carolina in the United States Senate from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the vice presidential nominee under US Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
He received 48.8% of the vote, the lowest winning total in North Carolina history for a U.S. Senate candidate; Hagan garnered 47.3%. [36] [37] During the 2014 campaign, the Tillis campaign and the North Carolina Republican Party paid $345,000 to the data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica to microtarget voters. [38]
North Carolina's 11th congressional district, 2018 [115] Party Candidate Votes % Republican: Mark Meadows (incumbent) 178,012 : 59.2 : Democratic: Phillip Price 116,508 38.8 Libertarian: Clifton Ingram 6,146 2.0 Total votes 300,666 : 100.0 : Republican hold
Whereas in the Deep South, Black Belt whites had deserted the national Democratic Party in 1948, in North Carolina, where they had historically been an economically liberalizing influence on the state Democratic Party, [1] the white landowners of the Black Belt had stayed exceedingly loyal to the party until after the Voting Rights Act. This ...
North Carolina House of Representatives 11th district general election, 2020 Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Allison Dahle (incumbent) 26,798 : 68.44% : Republican: Clark Pope 10,175 25.98% Libertarian: Adrian Lee Travers 2,185 5.58% Total votes 39,158 : 100% : Democratic hold