Amid blue tsunami, conservative ideas prevail

At the same time North Carolina Democrats secured eye-popping victories in federal, state, and local races on Tuesday, North Carolina voters demonstrated their commitments to fiscal conservatism and election integrity. Feel free to label this a contradiction if you wish, but it won’t change anything. Like Walt Whitman, the electorate is large and contains multitudes.Speaking of multitudes, while former Gov. Roy Cooper blew past former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley by a margin of 59% to 39% — becoming the first Democrat to win a US Senate seat here in nearly two decades — North Carolinians voted by an even-larger margin (62% to 38%) to lower the state’s constitutional cap on income tax rates to 3.5%.

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