1. Speaker Thom Tillis is perfectly capable of beating Hagan like a rented mule.
2. The filing deadline was February 28.
A possible source of the all the Tillis haterade (besides the dreaded mark of Rove) may be his curbstomping of an incumbent Republican State Rep. in the 2006 primary.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/03/06/4744098/senate-candidate-thom-tillis-first.html
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=304776
Rhodes was appearent
How conservative is Tillis?