Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
What is it with “narrative”? We used to talk about “message” in campaigns. Now candidates have a “narrative.” Rob Christensen did a recent column about the different “narratives” of the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate. “Message” implied issues. It implied addressing the concerns of voters. “Narrative” implies telling a compelling story…
The other night I landed on Congressman Brad Miller’s website and down the right side of the page saw a dozen blogs Brad recommends people read. I clicked on one and landed on a page with an ad of two women hugging – advertising vacations for gays in Key West. Another ad recommended an Internet…
North Carolina Republicans have an asset this year Democrats don’t have: Tom Fetzer. Fetzer is travelling around the state like a heat-seeking missile. His attacks on Governor Perdue make headlines week after week. Democratic Chair David Young is a stark contrast. He’s clearly not comfortable playing the role of political hit man. …
Yesterday I wrote about how one of my Republican friend’s is convinced to pay for Obamacare the Democrats are going to slash Medicare $500 billion – by kicking old people off their respirators; then, the next morning, I opened the newspaper and right there on page one was a Democrat who had a pretty odd…
The other day a friend sent me an article saying Obamacare cut Medicare $500 billion. I wrote back and asked, Exactly what Medicare treatments for patients did Obama cut? Back came another email with an article attached written by a lady, the former Lt. Governor of New York, who said Obama has set up…
There’s a lot of free-floating anger in America today. We saw it throughout the health-care debate. And Republicans are counting on it to fuel big election wins in November. It’s mostly on the right side of the spectrum. I see it in comments on this blog. Frank Rich wrote recently in The New…
Back on Election Night in the euphoria of just being elected North Carolina’s first woman Governor Beverly Perdue told reporters a new day was dawning in state government and the one thing she wasn’t going to tolerate was even a ‘whiff’ of corruption. Since then the Governor has had a tough year. She…
A couple of months ago the Supreme Court decided corporations – like people who talk and breathe and walk around on two legs – have an inalienable right to free speech, including the right to criticize politicians they don’t like all they want. Now, back when the court ruled that banks and insurance companies…
The Democratic primary for U.S. Senate here demonstrates why TV ads are important and valuable in politics, despite all the criticism they get. Outside of the campaigns and the insiders, there is little energy and interest in the campaign. Polls show undecided – or clueless – leading everybody. The problem is money.…
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…