Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Beverly Perdue may have overcome her addiction to ‘positive campaigning.’ This morning on the radio when asked if she’d continue her pledge not to run negative ads this fall she said she needed a little time to consider her strategy. If ‘negative ads’ were bad in April what changed in May? Back when Perdue renounced…
Finally, North Carolina mattered in the presidential race. The home of hard-edged racial politics clinched the nomination of Barack Obama. And put the nail in the coffin for Hillary Clinton. The Clinton campaign expected to do much better here. They hoped to keep the margin to five points. They even dreamed of an upset. They…
A few weeks ago, watching the Obama campaign’s energy, I predicted he would win North Carolina in a blowout, maybe by 20 points. A few months ago, watching the aggressiveness of Richard Moore’s campaign, I thought he might upset Bev Perdue. Today, Primary Day, looks different. It’s a reminder that – being exercises in human…
There’s hardly a problem in America today Barack Obama can’t blame on a corporation. They’re the whipping boys for everything from $4-a-gallon gasoline to soaring healthcare costs – Obama’s drawn a bulls eye on corporate lobbyists and voters are cheering him on. So it came as a shock – politically – to open the…
One reader has taken me to task, accusing me of ‘defending’ Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Anonymous (which is fine) wrote about my post Sound Bites versus Reality: Carter, before you act as a knee jerk apologist for Wright and Obama, you may want to look at that church’s website, which bases its “theology” on a black…
Saturday’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner was the biggest ever in North Carolina. And the most divided. When the Governor gets booed, you know feelings run high. It’s like those state Republican conventions back in the 1970s when the moderates and the Jessecrats were at war. Can the split be healed by November? My guess is that it…
Jeremiah Wright has Swift-boated Barack Obama. Obama’s boat may not be sinking, but he will be foundering if Hillary wins Indiana and keeps it close in North Carolina. The North Carolina Democrats who support Clinton deny her campaign is about race. They (or, at least, most of them) sincerely don’t want it to be about…
Since the Trojan Horse the divergence between appearance versus reality has been a motif in literature. The beast turns out to be a prince. The three witches tell Macbeth he’s safe until Birnham Wood moves to Dunsaine Hill. Which appears impossible. But happens. Today it could be Sound Bite versus Reality. And Reverend Jeremiah Wright…
When WRAL asked former Governor Jim Hunt about this year’s Democratic governor’s race it was like old times. Hunt opined about the virtues of positive campaigning: Candidates ought to say what they’d do. What they stand for. How they’d move North Carolina forward. (It was like a flashback to thirty years ago.) Then the governor…
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…
A reassuring lesson from our trip to Germany and Czechia is that dictators, despots and tyrants…