Towns: DSCC ran best campaign

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on December 31, 2008 - 1:28pm.
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Leroy Towns thinks the Washington Post got it wrong.

The UNC-Chapel Hill professor says a recent post by blogger Chris Cillizza that called Sen.-elect Kay Hagan's the best Senate campaign in the country was "flat wrong."

Democrat Hagan ran a terrible campaign in her defeat of Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole. She won because the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ran a brilliant campaign, placing more than $11 million in TV ads. The DSCC ran three of the best ads in the nation: the Rocking Chair series that painted Dole as old and out of touch. 

Towns also notes the old saying that "when you win you are considered brilliant." 

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Re: Towns: DSCC ran best campaign

Submitted by greenswamp on January 5, 2009 - 12:26pm.

All you have to do is google Leroy Towns to discern the credibility of that statement. A dyed-in-the-wool partisan like Towns is never going to give the opposition candidate any credit.

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Re: Towns: DSCC ran best campaign

Submitted by CarltonHuffman on December 31, 2008 - 1:35pm.

Amen to Mr. Towns. Hagan hardly ran any positive commercials and was simply bankrolled by Chucky Schumer's millions running down Elizabeth Dole. Dole didn't do herself many favors but Schumer and The DSC deserve the credit, not Kay Hagan.

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