Posted on 08/17/2009 10:54:42 PM PDT by MitchellC
I suspect that McCrory wouldn’t be much worse than Hayes was. But my hope is that someone better suited to the district (who is thoroughly conservative) will step up, and McCrory will build support by helping us take the state legislature in time to draw up the districts after 2010, then knock off Perdue in 2012.
If the political climate continues to be sunny for us in 2010, is it possible for us to pick up Heath Schuler’s seat, Bob Etheridge’s seat, Kissel’s seat, and Mike Inryle’s seat? These Tarheel seats were carried by Bush by good margins in 2000 and 2004.
I think all of those districts have a majority of voters who are open to voting for Republicans, as their past presidential votes indicate, but our biggest problem is finding credible challengers, and the fact that the NC GOP has been on life support forever.
After that, a problem is that McIntyre and Shuler are conservative enough for most of the conservative voters in their districts, making it very difficult to peg them with the liberal-ness of their party leadership. I think most people just don’t understand that for most congressmen, the most important vote they’ll ever make is the caucus vote, else many of these “conservative Democrats” wouldn’t get elected, since a vote for any Democrat is a vote to put Pelosi in power.
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