Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
When a Tree Falls…
How much is the presidential primary overwhelming other races? Here’s a sign: Who would have guessed that an openly gay candidate for United States Senate in North Carolina would go virtually unnoticed? But that’s the case for Jim Neal in his race against Kay Hagan. That a U.S. Senate race is basically being treated as…
Ad Wars. Tuition?
What Hillary Clinton called the “fun part” has started in the Governor’s race. Richard Moore and Bev Perdue are going at each other full-bore on TV. Over college tuition, of all things. Who guessed that would be the burning issue this year? Why? Because tuition sums up a host of middle-class economic anxieties. And it’s…
Electability Doesn’t Elect
A campaign that plays the electability card is by definition a campaign that is losing. Voters never elect a candidate because they think he or she is more electable in the fall than their opponent. There is a logical disconnect: The candidate who is losing usually argues electability. Voters don’t see how the loser can…
Debbie Sunshine?
Perhaps someone can shine the light of open-government on this question. Debbie Crane, former PIO at Health and Human Services, is being praised as a paragon of open government. She spoke at the Sunshine Week program at Elon University. Yet Crane says she told ex-Secretary Carmen Hooker Odom NOT to talk to The News &…
So?
That is what Vice President Cheney said when asked about the American people’s opposition to the Iraq War. Funny, that’s exactly what I think about anything Cheney says or believes. So? The Democrats’ strategy has to be to ask the American people if they want four more years of Bush-Cheney-McCain. Click Here to discuss and…
Obama Wins. It’s Over.
Make it official: Barack Obama has won the Democratic presidential nomination. He won it with his speech on race last week. He swept away any chance the superdelegates will overrule the results of the primaries and caucuses. By disarming his critics over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright – even Clinton had to praise his speech –…
Edwards Redux?
Is John Edwards contemplating another race? The state party announced that Edwards and James Carville will be keynote speakers at the Young Democrats annual meeting March 29. Immediately touching off speculation that Edwards may be thinking of another run for President (assuming Democrats lose this year) – or challenging Senator Richard Burr in 2010. That,…
Two Democratic Parties
Just like John Edwards’s “two Americas,” today we have two Democratic parties: the Obama party and the Clinton party. If you want to know where this kind of split leads, read about Kennedy v Carter in 1980, Ford v Reagan in 1976 and McCarthy v Humphrey in 1968. This is a formula for defeat in…
Two Democratic Parties
Just like John Edwards’s “two Americas,” today we have two Democratic parties: the Obama party and the Clinton party. If you want to know where this kind of split leads, read about Kennedy v Carter in 1980, Ford v Reagan in 1976 and McCarthy v Humphrey in 1968. This is a formula for defeat in…