Phil Berger (left), Sam Page (right) Image courtesy WRAL.com

Look, I really don’t have much of a dog in this hunt.  I don’t even live in North Carolina anymore, much less live back in the state senate’s 26th district.  But I did spend most of my life in Rockingham County and I maintain strong connections there.  I visit back there every so often.  And I’ve met Phil Berger and Sam Page at various times over the past two decades.  All of that, and the political commentator that’s been inside me for well over thirty years now is just aching to weigh in on this mess.  So that being said, here it goes…

For those who haven’t known, the 2026 race for North Carolina State Senate District 26 has been thrown into beyond the singularity: a place where future events cannot be estimated.  What happened is that Phil Berger, who has ...