Senate Guru - Front Page (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
North Carolina : Congressman Bob Etheridge is reconsidering running for Senate in 2010 against vulnerable freshman Republican backbencher Richard " Bank Run " Burr. This could be a good omen as then-State Senator Kay Hagan first decided against a 2008 Senate bid before reconsidering and going on to defeat Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole. Congressman Etheridge ended June with almost $900,000...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
After spinning our wheels for months in the recruitment process against GOP Sen. Richard Burr, it looks like Democrats have a strong chance of enticing North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marhsall to jump into the race. In an interview with Hotline On Call , Marshall stresses that Burr, being both "beatable" and "worse than Mrs. Dole", is shaping up to be an appealing target,...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
( NOTE FROM PAM : I've updated this diary that I posted last year for our fourth anniversary. It was interesting to look back and edit. I had to delete references to marriage equality in California that was later rolled back with Prop 8; sadly, we also saw amendments pass in Arizona and Florida. The comments from last year have been preserved. You can see the old diary in the Google cache to compare....
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 06/21/2009
We didn't dump Liddy Dole to deserve this. ( Mike Lux ): With Ted Kennedy too sick to come down to DC and make the committee vote, Democrats will need every Senator on the HELP committee to produce a strong bill, a bill that fights for what Teddy Kennedy has been fighting for his entire life. The last holdout is Kay Hagan, who represents a state (NC) that is one of the worst in the country in terms...
Durham-in-Wonderland (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
The second consecutive poll on the 2010 North Carolina Senate race shows one of the heroes of the lacrosse case, Roy Cooper, with a narrow lead over incumbent Senator Richard Burr--who joined his former colleague, Elizabeth Dole, in refusing to endorse Cooper's request for a Dept. of Justice inquiry into ex-DA Mike Nifong's alleged criminal conduct.
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 03/24/2009
Seeing North Carolina freshman Kay Hagan on the list didn't surprise me when Rachel Maddow revealed the names of the reactionary Democrats joining Evan Bayh's anti-Obama bloc. She ran as a tepid, non-progressive candidate against raging reactionary Elizabeth Dole. And in the primary, she was careful to not stay a millimeter from the center of the center. But after New York Senator Chuck Schumer, chair...
Senate Guru - Front Page (Free subscription) | 03/19/2009
North Carolina : A new Public Policy Polling poll yields more enlightening numbers. Republican freshman Richard Burr's approve-disapprove stands at a weak 35-32, significantly worse than the 43-31 approve-disapprove of Elizabeth Dole at the same point in the 2008 election cycle. In a hypothetical match-up against North Carolina's Democratic Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, Burr only leads 43-35,...
Daylight Atheism (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Regular readers of Daylight Atheism may recall how this site became involved in the U.S. Senate race in North Carolina last October. Trailing in the polls and running low on money, Republican senator Elizabeth Dole quoted Daylight Atheism in anti-atheist smear ads in a last-ditch attack aimed at her Democratic challenger Kay Hagan. Thankfully, Dole's [...]
The Economist (Free subscription) | 03/05/2009
How a controversial ad compares to a dangerous vice-presidential candidate ONE of the most controversial ads in the last election cycle was "Godless", from the North Carolina Senate race. Elizabeth Dole, the Republican incumbent, was trailing in the polls; in the final days of the campaign she lashed out at the Democratic challenger, Kay Hagan, for having attended a fundraiser hosted by...
Bligbi (Free subscription) | 03/05/2009
Back in October of last year then senator of North Carolina Elizabeth Dole was behind in the polls and did what any Republican politician would do in her spot. She went on the attack. Her method of attack was to ‘expose’ the fact that she had caught her challenger Kay Hagan not just associating with atheists, [...] Copyright © 2008 Bligbi . This feed is for personal non-commercial...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
(By Jim Morrill, jmorrill@charlotteobserver.com) It was the most memorable ad of North Carolina's 2008 U.S. Senate race, and one of the most notorious of any year. The “godless” ad that Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole ran in the final week of the campaign is “near the top of the list” of the year's most outrageous ads, says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the University of Pennsylvania's...
The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 02/19/2009
The Governor, for instance, charged the state of Alaska a $60 per diem expense for an appearance on Fox News on November 9, 2008. A few weeks later, she billed taxpayers another $60 for a "phone call with Sen. Elizabeth Dole." (Dole had lost her reelection bid weeks earlier). On the 26th of November, Palin again turned in a $60 meal/incidental expense per diem report for "Phone call...
Vote By Issues! (Free subscription) | 01/27/2009
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds that only 15% of voters in the state believe former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) will make North Carolina her home now that she is no longer representing the state as a Senator. Go to Source
The Mason Conservative (Free subscription) | 01/15/2009
I like Senator John Cornyn. I really like that he's NRSC Chairman, even more than John Ensign and defiantly more that Elizabeth Dole. But he has a choice to make as we approach the 2010 elections we have critical tests...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
Sen. Kay Hagen, who defeated Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina, and Rep. Paul Tonko of New York are among the new members of Congress who joined members of the AFL-CIO union movement at a reception in their honor. Before getting down to the serious business of fair pay legislation, the Employee Free Choice Act, economic recovery [...]
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