Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
We warn our kids to beware of who their online chat friends really are. Maybe the same caveat should apply to politics. Ryan Teague Beckwith writes in the N&O today about North Carolina’s first online debate – between Bev Perdue and Richard Moore. It’s sponsored by the BlueNC blog. Question: How do we know it’s…
The Young Democrats haven’t been this hot in North Carolina for 30 years. Long ago, being in the YDs was a logical step into politics. Both Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt were state YD presidents – and used the office as stepping stones. But, with the decline of grassroots politics, the importance of the YDs…
You know a campaign is getting rough when the consultants start attacking each other. As part of its effort to stop the NEA ads for Bev Perdue, the Moore campaign sent out emails with N&O clips linking the NEA to disgraced lottery-lobbyist Kevin Geddings and to Perdue adviser Mac McCorkle. The NEA helped pay for…
How much is the presidential primary overwhelming other races? Here’s a sign: Who would have guessed that an openly gay candidate for United States Senate in North Carolina would go virtually unnoticed? But that’s the case for Jim Neal in his race against Kay Hagan. That a U.S. Senate race is basically being treated as…
What Hillary Clinton called the “fun part” has started in the Governor’s race. Richard Moore and Bev Perdue are going at each other full-bore on TV. Over college tuition, of all things. Who guessed that would be the burning issue this year? Why? Because tuition sums up a host of middle-class economic anxieties. And it’s…
A campaign that plays the electability card is by definition a campaign that is losing. Voters never elect a candidate because they think he or she is more electable in the fall than their opponent. There is a logical disconnect: The candidate who is losing usually argues electability. Voters don’t see how the loser can…
Perhaps someone can shine the light of open-government on this question. Debbie Crane, former PIO at Health and Human Services, is being praised as a paragon of open government. She spoke at the Sunshine Week program at Elon University. Yet Crane says she told ex-Secretary Carmen Hooker Odom NOT to talk to The News &…
That is what Vice President Cheney said when asked about the American people’s opposition to the Iraq War. Funny, that’s exactly what I think about anything Cheney says or believes. So? The Democrats’ strategy has to be to ask the American people if they want four more years of Bush-Cheney-McCain. Click Here to discuss and…
Make it official: Barack Obama has won the Democratic presidential nomination. He won it with his speech on race last week. He swept away any chance the superdelegates will overrule the results of the primaries and caucuses. By disarming his critics over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright – even Clinton had to praise his speech –…
Jim Hunt would like James Talarico winning the Democratic primary in Texas. Like Talarico, the late…
“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph,…