I Stand Corrected

In response to a question recently, I blogged that Jim Hunt (1972 Lieutenant Governor’s race) was the last male candidate to defeat a woman in a Democratic primary.
 
Wrong.
 
It was Erskine Bowles, who defeated – among others – Elaine Marshall in 2002.
 
This is courtesy of my friend John Hood with the John Locke Foundation, who writes the second-most interesting daily blog in North Carolina (after this one, of course).
 
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I Stand Corrected

In response to a question recently, I blogged that Jim Hunt (1972 Lieutenant Governor’s race) was the last male candidate to defeat a woman in a Democratic primary.
 
Wrong.
 
It was Erskine Bowles, who defeated – among others – Elaine Marshall in 2002.
 
This is courtesy of my friend John Hood with the John Locke Foundation, who writes the second-most interesting daily blog in North Carolina (after this one, of course).
 
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