North Carolina – Republicans

It’s Tom Fetzer’s job to run around the state sounding alarms. But it’s not the media’s responsibility to salivate every time he rings the bell.   There is no greater example than the Perdue flight flap. In the end, that looks to be nothing more than a few small licks of flame.   Fetzer did…

Senator Richard Burr’s ad shows he knows he could be vulnerable. Voters don’t know him or what he’s done.   Which supports Elaine Marshall’s case for getting the $10 million she needs from the DSCC to be competitive.   Senate Democrats are playing defense most everywhere this year. It would be nice to make one…

The rumor among Republicans is that George Holding will run against Roy Cooper for AG in 2012.   That assumes, of course, that Holding doesn’t stay on as U.S. Attorney forever.   It also assumes he finally handles his high-profile cases: Mike Easley and John Edwards.   Maybe Holding will punt Easley to the state,…

The last couple of weeks, I’ve talked with Democrats and Republicans who are deeply involved in this year’s elections.   And I found a ray of hope for Democrats: 2010 may not be 1994 revisited.   The reason: 1994 itself.   What happened that year is hard-wired into Democratic DNA – in North Carolina and…

North Carolina Republicans are a long way from winning this fall’s legislative elections, but they’re winning the battle of perceptions.   And that battle has big implications for fundraising.   Three sources have told me in the last week that the Republicans’ presentations on their prospects for the fall are blowing away the Democrats.  …

Back when Beverly Perdue was running for Governor, just before the election I needed a piece of election law clarified before I ran two ads – so I called the State Board of Elections.  I wasn’t too hopeful.  I thought, Here I am asking a bunch of Democrats about running ads attacking a Democrat –…