Thursday, November 13, 2025

Looking Back at the Nov. 2025 Elections (& A Few Other Things)

By Christopher Cooper

On November 4, I wrote a short piece looking forward to election day, 2025 in North Carolina. In days since the election, I’ve participated in a few forums about what happened (see, for example, this one hosted by Political Scientist and all around good guy Michael Bitzer), which have given me the opportunity to think a little more systematically about what happened and what it might mean. 

I posted five takeaways that I feel relatively confident in at this early stage at the Anatomy of a Purple State Substack: 

https://open.substack.com/pub/chriscooperwcu/p/looking-back-at-the-nov-2025-elections