If having a must-read Twitter feed is a sign of influence, then North Carolina is lacking.
Al Eisele, editor-at-large of The Hill, compiled a list for The Huffington Post of 25 political Twitter feeds you have to follow. Not a one was from North Carolina.
Sure, there's Republican House whip Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia. And there's Sen. Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat who helpfully notifies readers of which Tweets he personally wrote versus those that were by staff members. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gets the nod, as does Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican.
There's no mention of feeds by our own Republican U.S. Reps. Walter Jones, Patrick McHenry, Sue Myrick or Virginia Foxx. Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan is left out as well. U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, a Republican of Winston-Salem, has a feed for his campaign.
So it sounds like our good elected representatives need to start burning up the Tweet-verse.
Hat Tip: Bill Krueger
