Every few days somebody asks, “How’s Governor Hunt doing?” Here’s your answer. Bill Kirby Jr. wrote in the Fayetteville Observer this week about Hunt’s appearance at a Tim Kaine rally:

“You would have thought, from the audience reaction, that Jim Hunt was the Democratic vice presidential nominee….Hunt, 79, his hair now near white, still can stir a Democratic following….

“Hunt seemed to bask in this moment of political campaign deja vu, and the adulation.

“You could sense that James Baxter Hunt Jr. didn’t want to leave the stage, but before departing he had a final word.

“‘This election is a great opportunity to build America, and what we’ll have under two great leaders,’ Hunt said. ‘I predict to you we’re going to have great Democratic victories in North Carolina that support our military, education and the economy. We’re going to elect Roy Cooper as governor, Tim Kaine as vice president … and Hillary Clinton as the next president’.”

“The old governor, no question about it, had ’em in the palms of his ageless political hands.”