Monday, January 12, 2009

Our Last Post (For a While)

The swearing in of Bev Perdue and North Carolina’s other statewide elected politicians officially caps the state’s historic 2008 election season.

It also means the end for Trail Mix, which has no more election gorp to report.

At least for now.

This blog will be quiet for a while, as we turn our attention away from electoral politics and toward the fast-approaching 2009 session of the N.C. General Assembly, which convenes Jan. 28.

It’s been quite a year. Thirteen months ago, this blog launched in the heat of John Edwards’ run for president. Take a look back at our very first post to see how different everything looked back then. Edwards, pre-affair and pre-Iowa caucuses, seemed to have a fighting shot at his party’s nomination. John McCain didn’t. Illegal immigration was a red-hot issue. The economy wasn’t. Pat McCrory hadn’t even entered the race for North Carolina governor. And two Winston-Salem candidates were trying to break the city’s 104-year drought on the Council of State.

Thanks for reading, everyone. Rest assured that Trail Mix — or whatever its next incarnation is — won’t be gone for long. A new round of candidates, and those of us who chase them for a living, will be back to the trail soon: 2010 is just around the corner.