Our reporters have spent months interviewing candidates and dissecting issues to bring you a comprehensive guide to voting in Raleigh. We have analysis on the Wake Tech bond, the presidential and gubernatorial elections, the State Superintendent race, where Wake’s own John Tedesco is in the running, and profiled almost every candidate that will be elected by Raleigh voters; state house and senate, U.S. House and a host of county seats.
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Profiling the Candidates
We spoke with almost every candidate running for a seat in Raleigh. We asked each candidate the same set of questions based on important issues in her or his particular race, and we followed up if we felt like we didn’t get a straight answer. The bulk of this guide consists of those answers, transcribed by our reporters and edited to fit in the space we have available. But what you read here are the candidates’ own words, unscripted.
We did not provide the questions ahead of time. In some cases the candidate refused to speak with us, most notably Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, because we would not negotiate on providing the questions in advance. We felt it would not be fair to other candidates and we did not want scripted answers — that would not be fair to you.
