In Mecklenburg County, women won electoral races up and down the ballot, beating men for county commission, school board and legislative seats in the 2022 general election.

A former executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party wrote an article critical of Rep. Madison Cawthorn's decision to run in NC's newly created 13th Congressional District in 2022. He tells WFAE's politics reporter Steve Harrison that it might lead to backlash from Cawthorn's own party.

A proposed new congressional map for North Carolina removes Polk, McDowell and Rutherford counties from the 11th District, which is represented by Republican Madison Cawthorn. The freshman member of Congress is also facing GOP primary challengers.

In his bid for U.S. Senate, Democrat Jeff Jackson has campaigned on legalizing marijuana. But while Jackson has campaigned on legalizing marijuana in North Carolina, he hasn’t been a key player on legalization bills during this legislative session. Why the disparity?

Is there a chance 26-year-old Rep. Madison Cawthorn, in North Carolina's 11th district, could be a one-term congressman? Four Republicans and seven Democrats have already announced they are running against him in 2022.

U.S. Census Bureau data tells us that rural counties in North Carolina lost population between 2010 and 2020. That coincides with the GOP's takeover of the NC General Assembly in 2011. But when a recent opinion piece said that Republicans have made life worse for rural NC counties, Steve Harrison, in his weekly Inside Politics newsletter, wonders if that's true — or a misunderstanding of causation and correlation.

WFAE reached out to North Carolina Democrats running for Senate and asked specifically about the Manchin idea on voter ID. How did each candidate feel about supporting the idea?

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin — the key figure in passing the Democrats' sweeping voting rights bill — this week released a three-page memo showing voting reform that he would support. How do North Carolina's voting laws stack up to his proposal?

The Charlotte City Council and mayor are likely to get four or five months added to their two-year terms because of U.S. Census Bureau delays in reporting data. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board? Some will likely get an extra year to their four-year terms. Why the disparity?

Democrats voted by mail in the 2020 election in record numbers. But what about those late-arriving mail ballots — the ones that were postmarked by Election Day but arrived up to nine days afterward in North Carolina? Who cast those ballots? WFAE's Steve Harrison takes a look at the data for some surprising revelations.