[MitchellC]

However, in the end the ad had very little impact if any, in the defeat of Elizabeth Dole.

I think he's right. If you hear some media type insist that voters rejected Dole because of the ad, it's probably projection; keep in mind that these are the same types who went along with Hagan as she cast herself as a victim and filed a frivolous lawsuit that none of them questioned.

[MitchellC]

Long article on a topic most people are probably sick of hearing about, but this really is worth the read.

The DSCC went up with their first ad on Aug. 1. ... Majority Action followed a week later, and other groups joined the attacks against us soon after. Over the next three months, outside groups spent more than $21 million in attacks against us.

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[tommyboy]

Dole lost because, like her husband, she was uninspiring and her office just became a "paycheck" to her. She tried to be everything to everybody and ended up in the middle, as road-kill .

Sad to say, as others have, the current crop of republicans attempt to do the right thing more when they are in the minority.

Just can't figger it out!

[elpadre]

I think he is right. From what I saw, Obama saturated the state with local Obama offices in most every small town and they were well organized with many workers on the streets every weekend.

When two came to my door I tried to correct their thinking. I told them I looked at a candidate's record and Obama’s record did not match his campaign rhetoric - that I didn't trust the man. No-one came back. I suspect they visited every house in the town/county, and I believe they swayed a bunch of voters. And, this being a college town, they sent several car loads of young campaigners up to the Norfolk area on weekends to support Obama offices there.I mean, this was very well organized = like out of a "how to" textbook.

Obama’s team ran a very effective grassroots voter registration and turnout program.

We, the Republicans might well go to school on how they did it.

[kalee]

This was all he needed to write...”during the two-year period when she was chairman of the NRSC, she only traveled to North Carolina a handful of times.

We were particularly concerned about the time spent in the state. In 2002 she was attacked as a carpetbagger, and accused of only returning to North Carolina to win a Senate seat. She overcame those attacks in her first run, but we knew that this was an issue we would be vulnerable on.”

She was on the radio and claiming she had visted every county. Baloney, out county GOP begged her to come here but she wouldn’t.

[JSDude1]

I had an interview with the Elizabeth Dole campaign early in it’s run (in 2007) the people running it always seemed to me to be RINO types (were lawyers mostly), nice but RINOS.

I like her, but it was a shame she couldn’t keep Jesse Helms’ senate seat in Republican hands!

[JWinNC]

"And during the two-year period when she was chairman of the NRSC, she only traveled to North Carolina a handful of times.

We were particularly concerned about the time spent in the state. In 2002 she was attacked as a carpetbagger, and accused of only returning to North Carolina to win a Senate seat. She overcame those attacks in her first run, but we knew that this was an issue we would be vulnerable on."

That's reason #1. I like the lady, but she pulled a "John Edwards" on us. Once she won she was "Senator Gone - Part Two."

jw