Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Women are winning everywhere: Elaine Marshall, Nikki Haley, Blanche Lincoln, Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman. North Carolina leads the way. Marshall would make two female Senators. A female governor. As Thomas Mills with the Marshall campaign pointed out, seven of ten statewide winners in 2008 were women. And women are moving up in the legislature…
There’s a simple explanation for Elaine Marshall’s victory: Thomas Mills. Her homegrown campaign manager outwitted Cal Cunningham’s bigger-name team, defied the DSCC and disproved the doubters. Maybe one time in 10 the candidate with less money wins. This was one, and that’s a big win in politics. As Secretary of State, Marshall…
D.G. Martin again has generously shared his radio time on WCHL (1360AM) with me. He did two more lengthy interviews about my book on Jim Hunt, which will be published in November. The final part of the program airs tonight at 6 pm. (Another segment aired last night.) Or you can listen on…
Elaine Marshall’s campaign has shown a striking level of confidence about today’s runoff. She said the only way she could lose would be to walk down the street naked. Yep, that would do it. And her campaign apparently sent out a communication that sounded like an early declaration of victory. They…
The first ‘reality moment’ in a political campaign last week belonged to Bob Etheridge; the second belonged to Bill Randall. Randall, who is locked in a tight runoff with Bernie Reeves, called his first press conference Tuesday and announced – as the cameras rolled – he thought the government and BP had conspired to…
Last week was a heckuva week. On Monday, Al Lytton – Renee Ellmers’ campaign manager – and I sat down, racking our brains to figure out how Renee could raise money over the Internet (to match the million odd dollars Bob Etheridge has sitting in his bank account from special interests), then out of…
Campaign-finance reformers take heed: the Democratic U.S. Senate primary is what politics would look like without money. Unexciting, uninspiring and virtually invisible. Plus, virtually no voters. A campaign without TV ads is essentially a campaign that doesn’t exist. Yes, I know the importance of online communications. But TV is still the most powerful…
Editorial writers are sometimes accused of occupying an ivory tower. This one from the Greensboro News & Record must live in a soundproof padded cell. Here’s what he or she wrote yesterday about Bob Etheridge’s video: “For now, his relatively unknown opponent, Renee Ellmers of Dunn, says she’s not going to take advantage…
Republicans are determined to save Democrats from electoral disaster this year. With any luck, the GOP will nominate Tea Partier Bill Randall to run against Brad Miller. Randall distinguished himself this week by speculating that the Gulf Oil spill is a conspiracy between Washington and BP. Did anybody ask him if 9/11 was…
The political sniping began even as chaos still reigned at the White House Correspondents Dinner. My…
A new nationwide poll shows that, if they could run against each other in 2028, Barack…
Senator Phil Berger was out of touch with voters in his district – and suffered the…