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Why North Carolina Matters: A Tea Party Testing Ground
WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA—Politically, North Carolina matters and matters quite a bit. Once called the most progressive southern state, North Carolina was controlled by Democrats for over one hundred and twenty years. Before McCrory, the last Republican governor was elected almost thirty years ago. In fact, you can count the number of Republican governors on one…
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As Jon Stewart was restoring sanity on the Washington Mall, Tea Party Nut Jobs are measuring the drapes in the House. Meanwhile, the votes are there for the Dem, but can the Dems get the votes to the polls?
In eastern North Carolina, the votes are there for the Dems, the question is: can the Dems get the voters to the polls? In an article from the Los Angeles Times, the real majority in this midterm election may very well be the non-voters. http://tinyurl.com/22uk573 The majority of the non-voters tend to be liberal, poorer…
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Woolard Supporter Brings Handgun to Democratic Headquarters in Beaufort County just before Butterfield arrived! Police Called and Took Control
A few weeks ago, I was co-hosting Jammin 99.3 with David Perkins and I mentioned the emotional environment with some tea party members and their use of handguns at rallies. This is a prime example of emotional rhetoric gone astray. In the Daily News article, Woolard supported his supporter with “his 2nd Amendment Right to…
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Craig Crawford (Political Pundit): It’s not like the GOP has offered an enticing alternative, just relentless bashing of those in power.
To accomplish this, the Republicans have targeted certain key Dems in eastern North Carolina, among them is NC State Sen. A. B. Swindell, Rep. Joe Tolson, Rep. Jean Farmer-Butterfield, and the list goes on. Now, more than ever, your vote counts; maybe more so than your vote in 2008. There are times when Craig Crawford…
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Tea Party wants to return to a simpler, more basic time in American society…well here’s the picture of what life was like back in the day! Vote Nov 2—This is my reminder!
Yep, I’m posting this picture. After all the rhetoric, after watching tea bagger after tea bagger talk about the “good ol days” and wanting to return to our roots—but never really coming out and saying how far back they’d like to go….I’m posting this picture to remind myself that unless we remember our history, the…