Hagan 'runner up' for best campaign

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on June 7, 2008 - 9:08am.
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Chris Cillizza says Kay Hagan has run the second-best U.S. Senate campaign.

In a chat on the Washington Post's Web site, the political reporter responded to a reader from Iowa who asked about Senate races, saying he thought Mark Warner of Virginia had run the best campaign this season.

Runner up: Kay Hagan in North Carolina. In short order she has put Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R) on the national target list with a combination of strong fundraising, a solid primary win, and rave reviews from national strategists about her candidate skills. 

Previously: Hagan race "on the margins."

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Re: Hagan 'runner up' for best campaign

Submitted by uncgop on June 7, 2008 - 1:00pm.

I agree that this not completely accurate and premature at best. Her primary pitted her against a complete outsider with a poor campaign structure and minor fund raising effort. The truth of the matter is that no one has challenged her record in the North Carolina General Assembly, in fact, probably haven't even looked at her record. Once people begin to do some research, this race will be interesting at best.

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Re: Hagan 'runner up' for best campaign

Submitted by pirategreg on June 7, 2008 - 9:37am.

I'm a blue-blooded liberal, and even I don't think that this is accurate. Hagan may have overwhelmingly won her primary, but she only won because her opposition couldn't get the same kind of financing from the establishment.

Hagan can barely muster together a coherent sentence, and the only words that she seems to know are "Washington is broken". She was a disaster in her primary debate, performing far below Jim Neal and Marcus Williams.

I'm a democrat, and I'm voting for her in November, but I wish the democrats had a more polished candidate, because Hagan is a serious letdown.

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