U.S. Senate candidates Kay Hagan and Elizabeth Dole — who have yet to debate in public — were very close to tussling over the issues before a public audience.
It would have been a long-distance forum — not quite a debate — but at least open to the public, Barb Barrett reports.
Hagan, the Democratic challenger, said she couldn't make it to the event, scheduled for Thursday. She plans to be voting in Greensboro.
But Dole will be there, at a public forum from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Thursday at Wake Technical Community College's Student Services Lounge, 9101 Fayetteville St., in Raleigh.
The forum is co-sponsored by Rock the Vote and Generation Engage, a nonpartisan group working to get young people interested in elections. Dole, the incumbent Republican, will take questions from both a moderator and members of the audience.
Hagan, too, was invited, said Leah Borkin, spokeswoman for Generation Engage.
More after the jump.
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Hagan would have been speaking from across the state at a community college in Charlotte, but the two candidates still would have interacted through a technological link, said Hagan spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan.
"We were really looking forward to doing that," Flanagan said. "We were looking forward to anything remotely resembling a debate."
Flanagan said Hagan told the group early on that Oct. 16 wouldn’t work because it is the first day of early voting. Hagan plans to vote at 10 a.m. Thursday at her home precinct. She’ll then travel to the Triangle for a 1 p.m. rally at Duke University with other Democrats, including former Gov. Jim Hunt.
Generation Engage and Rock the Vote are working to schedule Hagan for a forum on another date sometime before the election.
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