Raise Your Game, Kay

With the unfortunate exception of Jesse Helms, no U.S. Senator from North Carolina has won reelection since Sam Ervin (1956, 1962 and 1968). Kay Hagan needs to keep that sobering fact in mind.



Unfortunately, some of her public statements give one pause about her prospects.



Like her victory speech Election Night, which was needlessly nyah-nyah in tone. Or her statement last week about why she came to Governor Perdue’s inaugural festivities: “She ran a great race.”



No, Kay. The election was two months ago. The correct answer is: “Because it’s a historic day and she will be a great governor.”



Some of Hagan’s partisans bristle at suggestions that it was the DSCC’s money and ads – especially the rocking chair ads – that won for her, not her own campaign. But, in politics, when you start fooling yourself, you end up the fool.




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Raise Your Game, Kay

With the unfortunate exception of Jesse Helms, no U.S. Senator from North Carolina has won reelection since Sam Ervin (1956, 1962 and 1968). Kay Hagan needs to keep that sobering fact in mind.



Unfortunately, some of her public statements give one pause about her prospects.



Like her victory speech Election Night, which was needlessly nyah-nyah in tone. Or her statement last week about why she came to Governor Perdue’s inaugural festivities: “She ran a great race.”



No, Kay. The election was two months ago. The correct answer is: “Because it’s a historic day and she will be a great governor.”



Some of Hagan’s partisans bristle at suggestions that it was the DSCC’s money and ads – especially the rocking chair ads – that won for her, not her own campaign. But, in politics, when you start fooling yourself, you end up the fool.




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