In Print: Assessing the Race for Governor
From Sunday’s print edition: An analysis of the tight race between Bev Perdue and Pat McCrory, a pair of campaign veterans who have never lost an election. It’s the closest gubernatorial race in the country this year. Here’s an excerpt from the story:
[I]t’s hard to imagine two candidates for governor who could be more different.
On the campaign trail, McCrory’s most striking characteristic is his social energy. He is gregarious and eager to please, practically leaving a trail of charisma as he works the room.
Perdue is a natural politician, too. But what’s most striking about her is not affability, but empathy. Especially in these economic times, she wants her audiences to believe that she feels their pain.
While McCrory backslaps, Perdue hugs. And while McCrory speaks in intense, declarative sentences, Perdue tends to be more oblique, using folksy anecdotes or lofty generalizations to make her points.
Their contrasting styles seem to originate in their very different backgrounds.
The full story can be found here.
The jaw dropping thing about Bev Perdue is that even though 2 Perdue fundraisers on the Dept. of Transportation board have resigned this year, the last one as recent as September, she still continues to take money from other DOT board members. She promised an office of “transparency” after the last guy had to resign but 4 days later she took more campaign contributions from another DOT board member. She accepted $17,000 from DOT board members in the last quarter of campaign finance reporting. Does that sound like transparency to you? Does that sound like she is going to clean up corruption in Raleigh or continue the corruption? Perdue still has the DOT board in her back pocket. It’s time we stop the corruption in Raleigh and send Bev Perdue packing.
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Mary Beth on 11/03/2008 (8:21 am)
Perdue has become harder to follow as the campaign has gone on.
http://www2.talkingaboutpolitics.com/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ArticleView/mid/364/articleId/1414/Perdue—Drilling.aspx
Betsy Dail on 10/27/2008 (9:31 pm)