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Re: Burr has $1.6m on hand

mountainman — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:40:20 -0400

WOW I can't believe gosh is trying to control this post. Maybe everone should quit blogging here and let gosh talk to himself. Maybe he would get bored with it, and get off the couch and go get a job. Or maybe this his job,maybe a employee of the democrat party, or acorn, or roy cooper, the list goes on and on.

Re: Gosh, I got a pot kettle feeling

Gosh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:35:04 -0400

Gosh, I got a pot kettle feeling

Admitting it is the first step to recovery.

It is a shame a real progressive like Jim Neal doesn't get in this race.

Why? He's a self serving tool that 'documented' his silly self running for Senate on video hoping to make a reality show on E!

Thank GOD for Kay Hagen.

You were saying about Burr's Bank Run and Brooke's Busy Day?

Oh, it netted them $1.6 million in the kind of corporate special interests that almost destroyed this nation, demanded a bailout Burr voted for, and then freaked Burr out so bad he made the biggest rookie mistake of a Senior Senator's life for the next 2 and a half months.

Bragging about being dumb.

Re: Burr has $1.6m on hand

Gosh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:13:19 -0400

dgilligan, you my friend are a genius.

Didn't even realize how busy Brooke was that weekend our panicked Senior Senator asked her to max out 6 accounts over 3 days, until his windfall just hit the news.

$1.6 million sounds about right. I'm assuming Dick didn't check the couch for loose change.

Gosh, I got a pot kettle feeling

PoliticalJunkie — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:11:25 -0400

coming on here. A real strong one.

Go look at Roy "Captain Corporate America" Cooper's finance reports dating back to his initial NC House campaign.

It is a shame a real progressive like Jim Neal doesn't get in this race.

Re: Burr has $1.6m on hand

dgilligan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:07:36 -0400

Burr brings new meaning to "Cash on Hand." Does that $1.6 Million reside under his Treasurer's mattress?

Re: Burr has $1.6m on hand

Gosh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:33:15 -0400

I would have thought the Corporate Special Interests that got us into this mess would pay better in this day and age of requesting bailouts while being in the minority.

Top Contributors
Richard Burr

RJR Nabisco/RJ Reynolds Tobacco
$189,750

Wachovia Corp
$130,150

Womble, Carlyle et al
$120,650

BellSouth Corp
$63,350

GlaxoSmithKline
$61,748

Bank of America
$58,150

Blue Cross/Blue Shield
$55,240

AT&T Inc
$53,350

Progress Energy
$49,200

Duke Energy
$47,500

Shelco Inc
$45,700

American Health Care Assn
$45,500

Southern Co
$39,500

National Assn of Realtors
$36,250

All favorites of working class North Carolinians. Banks, Lawyers, Utilites and Insurance Companies. Pretty much anyone that sends us a bill.

So glad to hear DC wonks find it "acceptable."

Re: Ross, Silver take the gold in punditry

AwakeReader — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:45:52 -0500

So what? Please use a little critical thinking on this point. It means nothing to predict the race. It helps no voters or citizens to hear endless daily polls in the press. Why do we have these polls? What if we had no polls reported until the actual poll on election day? In that case we would actually hear from the campaigns on the issues. Wow, what an idea! Please think of who actually benifits from all the polling and you will see why we don't need it. Prediction is not a science, it is opinion. All these Obama predictors could have been made wrong by any overnight incident that got out the last days of the campaign, and then all the McCain predictors would have won. It means nothing. It harms our political life.

Re: Ross, Silver take the gold in punditry

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:30:11 -0500

I'll have another post up sometime today on the results of the office pool.

— RTB

Re: Ross, Silver take the gold in punditry

DustinIngalls — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:26:43 -0500

I'd like to point out that my office pool prediction for this blog was remarkably close to the actual result: 49.8% for Obama, 49.3% for McCain, and 0.8% for Barr. Actual result, last I checked: 49.7% for Obama, 49.4% for McCain, and 0.6% for Barr.

Re: PPP Poll: Governor's race a toss-up

pickingperdue — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:42:22 -0500

Concerned 53, please get some sleep...you are getting jaded. Why must you insist on every single tiny endorsement being listed for McCrory be put on this blog? Maybe you could poll the big banks or Duke Power and say they are for Pat.
Please refer to Charlotte Observer's Ballot Box today: McCrory has lost any edge he had in early October and Perdue has been ahead in every poll (including Civitas) for the last 4 weeks. A one point loss is the same as a 50 point loss; Perdue still wins.
Hopefully, you will get some much-needed rest after Perdue wins tomorrow night, and go back to working for the mayor. Let Perdue handle the Governor's office.

PPP Poll: Governor's race a toss-up

concerned53 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:43:05 -0500

McCrory has pulled within one point in the most recent democatrically backed Public Policy Poll. This improvement for McCrory is despite changes to the make up of those polled that would favor Perdue versus McCrory as they increased the percentage of women, African-Americans and respondents in the east versus the west.

Ryan, any reason you are not reporting this or Henry Hinton endorsing McCrory? You seem to be promoting anything that is in Perdue's favor.

Henry Hinton endorsed McCrory

concerned53 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:30:44 -0500

Add Henry Hinton, radio host of "Talk of the Town" in Greenville as he endorsed McCrory today. Why not Beverly?

Re: Rankings on the governor's race

wolfpackalum — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:51:17 -0500

Public Policy Polling came out with a new poll today that had McCrory's strength picking up since their last poll on October 28th. This is particularly interesting when you look at the cross tabs. McCrory's strength from the last poll to this one as increased despite the fact that PPP increased the percentage of females surveyed by 3%, increased the african american percentage of respondents by 1%, decreased the percentage of respondents in the 704 area code by 2%, increased the respondents in the 252, 910, and 919 area codes by 3%, 1%, and 1%. To me those numbers indicate a McCrory victory.

Re: Rankings on the presidential race

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:42:06 -0500

Sorry. I've updated this post multiple times. Will change the lead.

— RTB

Re: Rankings on the presidential race

bragin@nc.rr.com — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:14:28 -0500

Uh, Ryan? You write:

"A quick survey of the major political observers in the days leading up to the election show that they think the state is a toss up, with only a few willing to make a prediction:"

Then you quote 27 different media outlets/pundits, of whom 13 say Obama, 9 say McCain, and only 5 won't make a prediction.

What am i missing here?