Although this indeed is the Senate seat formerly held by the great Jesse Helms,Hagan’s immediate predecessor was Elizabeth Dole who grew up in NC but was painted as a Washington insider by Hagan in 2008. Elizabeth Dole was imminently more qualified than Kay Hagan, but did not take Hagan’s candidacy seriously enough until it was too late. Still, it took Obama’s strong showing in NC in 2008 to enable her to win the seat.
Gay Pagan is beatable. I’m not sure whether to put her down as more or less beatable than Mark Begich in Alaska, but she one of the vulnerable six we need to pick off.
imminently = eminently
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