If you’ve paid attention to the women’s issues of the 2012 campaign, you might agree with the late Texas Gov. Ann Richards, who saidquoting the poet Edna St. Vincent Millaythat life isn’t one thing after another, it’s the same damned thing over and over. A woman’s right to use contraception? To terminate a pregnancy? To […]
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Message of 2012: Moderation, in DC and in Raleigh
Obama a decisive winner, though the popular vote is close. Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin head a cast of new Democrats in the U.S. Senate, which stays Democratic by 55-45. The House is Republican. Averting the fiscal cliff and moving the country forward now requires — what? Compromise. Pat McCrory wins the governor’s office for the […]
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Election predictions? Mine are as follows —
Obama gets 51 percent of the popular vote nationally, net of what the Republicans can suppress or disqualify. He carries North Carolina and Florida by a hair. I said the other day that he’d lose Colorado and wind up with 338 electoral votes — not a landslide, but close. Colorado, because of the marijuana referendum, […]
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From Alternet: A must-read on white men of the South
Today’s must-read by Lynn Parramore, once (and still) of Raleigh, urges her fellow progressives to get past the redneck stereotype in their heads about the southern white male. If they do, they’ll realize: What liberals and progressives don’t seem to understand is that you don’t counter a myth with a pile of facts and statistics. […]
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Bill Clinton in Raleigh Sunday at Pullen Park: Tickets are free, online
The announced start time is either 3:30 or 4, depending on which Obama announcement you believe. That’s when they open things up. “Get there early,” they say. Expect Clinton to begin … well, who knows? I’m guessing 5? The entrance to Pullen Park is on Ashe Avenue. I wouldn’t try to drive on Ashe, however. […]
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(Updated: Now, it’s on Sunday, details still TBD) Bill Clinton coming to Raleigh: N.C. in play
So yesterday we learned that neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney has N.C. on their travel schedules for the rest of the campaign. Then we learned Michelle Obama will be in Charlotte Monday. And now we know that Bill Clinton is due in Raleigh on Saturday morning Sunday. [Update: The campaign has moved it back […]
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North Carolina could decide it — if …
CO, FL, NC, VA, WI and NH gets Romney to 271 EVs.
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Cecile Richards
visits photo by Bob GearyCecile Richards is the tall blonde in the back center; Secretary of State Elaine Marshall is on her right, two away.
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N.C. not on Obama, Romney schedules thru Monday — so far
From NBC News guy (h/t Jonathan Kappler) — Obama’s travel plans: Obama’s final sked: THU — WI, NV, CO; FRI — OH; SAT — OH, WI, IA, VA; SUN — NH, FL, OH, CO; MON — WI, OH, IA— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) November 1, 2012
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Imaginary conversations with Debra Goldman
Whoever supplied The News & Observer and WRAL with a secret police report on the unsolved Goldman jewelry caper of 2010 didn’t think to send it to me. Rats! But when Debra Goldman, Wake County school board member and Republican candidate for state auditor, “fired back” in The N&O using her recordings of some private […]
