A failure to win this seat would be a national embarrassment for the Republicans. Hagan has to be one of most useless Senators ever. Her IQ probably rivals the temperatures of NC during this past Winter.
Don.t bother to vote for Tillis.
Go for broke and write in Karl Rove.
Not on policy, but on something about him arranging a golden parachute for a couple of aides. "It cost the taxpayers $19,000."
If that's the best she can do...
North Carolina is a pretty good example of what the Democrats are facing. Sen. Kay Hagan will be at the top of the ticket. The fact that a wealthy white woman will be leading the Democratic ticket makes it unlikely that many of the voters who went to the polls in 2008 and 2012 to vote for the first black president are going to bother to go to the polls to give a millionaire white woman her second term.
Pundits predict, with good reason, that the turnout in November will be whiter and wealthier than the turnout in 2008 or 2012. In presidential elections between 40 percent and 50 percent of the electorate generally vote. With Obama on the ticket that increased to over 60 percent. That additional 10 percent or so didn’t show up to vote for Sen. John McCain or Mitt Romney. The majority went to the polls to vote for Obama.
Despite that fact Romney carried North Carolina in 2012. But more importantly, Gov. Pat McCrory won the governor’s race and Republicans won both the state House and state Senate by large margins.
Another change that is going to affect the race is the abolition of straight-ticket voting. People who have been going to the polls for years and hitting the straight party ticket are not going to be able to do that and are going to find themselves tediously going through the ballot to vote for each race. It will be interesting to see what the fall off is for the down ticket races like state House, state Senate and county commissioner.
http://www.rhinotimes.com/under-the-hammer-4-17-14.html
Apparently the Hagan Campaign has some “surprises” to pull out of the bag on Brannon and that’s why they’re hoping he is Hagan’s opponent in November. Tillis.... well, we all know he has baggage. So, I’m thinking Mark Harris might be the one to “save” this race for the GOP. I’m sure he has the less skeletons in the closet, that could come out in the Fall. And, I don’t think he would make the Rookie, Tea Party gaffes that so many of our Tea Party Candidates make. Bevin and Wolf have pretty well joined the ranks of Akin and Mourdock. If I lived in NC, right now, I’d be going with Harris.