Pearce on UNC student tussle

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:00:00 -0400

Gary Pearce blames stress for the John Edwards' tussle with a UNC journalist.

On his Talking About Politics blog, the Democratic political operative writes that campaign staffers are "tightly wound" at this point in an election:

Blame stress. Perspective is the first thing to go among overworked, over-caffeinated, 20- and 30-something campaign staffers.

Still, he says a campaign can't win by "going postal." The best thing to do is apologize and laugh off coverage that you don't like.

He also questioned the Edwards campaign's response that reporters sometimes don't love Edwards.

"Reporters aren't supposed to love you," he wrote. "They're supposed to report on you."

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