According to the Kay Hagan campaign, the candidate for the Democrat nomination for US Senate has won two key endorsements. Both the Charlotte Observer and Winston-Salem Journal have endorsed her in recent days. They are also touting her recent straw poll win at the Forsyth County Democrat Convention.
While Hagan is the favorite of the "establishment" Democrats, her rival, Chapel Hill liberal Jim Neal, has been scooping up endorsements from the far left. Neal touts such publications as Greensboro’s Yes! Weekly, and groups like Guilford County Chapter of the Progressive Democrats. Additionally, he is the beloved candidate of far left website, BlueNC.
According to Neal's website, Yes! praised the Neal campaign’s openness and energetic outreach. “Jim Neal of Chapel Hill has been barnstorming the state … cultivating his netroots alongside his grassroots, blogging regularly as he crosses the state in his Escape Hybrid… We want a senator we can communicate with, and so far Hagan has not shown that she’s ready to do that.”
Hagan is expected to win the nomination on May 6th and will attempt to paint Elizabeth Dole as an out-of-touch senator who is to the right of unpopular President George W. Bush. However, that will be far from the case. While Dole is a key ally of Bush, she has also opposed him on key issues.
Expect the NC Democrat truth-busting machine to be in full-effect this Fall! Kay Hagan will try to appear to North Carolina moderates as their savior, but if elected, she would vote to the left of Nancy Pelosi.
Conservatives have much at stake in this race. While Dole might not be the conservative stalwart as was former Senator Jesse Helms, North Carolina must not elect a liberal Democrat to her seat. We cannot afford the Democrat Party and we certainly can't afford Kay Hagan!
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