My Spin: Do we want to be a one-party state?
Campbell say that "proportional voting promises to end one party rule, improve governance, simplify elections and encourage greater participation by voters and candidates."
By Tom Campbell
When I first registered to vote there wasn’t much choice which party I would choose. About 73 percent were Democrats. The Pitt County Republican Party chair once cracked his party could hold their county convention in the phone booth on the courthouse lawn. They were that few.
Since the early 1900s, North Carolina had been a one-party state. If you wanted to vote in a primary election, a vote that often determined the ultimate winners, you had to be a Democrat - Republicans seldom held primaries. Some old-line Democrats still assert that they did a pretty good job of running our state during their almost 100-year reign. But did they?
