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2008 Elections

Hagan says she supports public option

Sen. Kay Hagan joined fellow Dems on the HELP committee in supporting a public option in health care reform. TPM has the story here. Jame [...]
July 3, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Health Care, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

MoveOn ads on Health Care

Word via TPM that MoveOn is going to take on Sen. Kay Hagan over the public option. I spoke with some folks in the Senator’s [...]
June 27, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Current Events, Health Care | Tags: , , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

PACing the legislature

This lovely reminder of how things work from Bob Hall and our friends at Democracy NC: (link to report) SPECIAL-INTEREST PACS GUARD TAX LOOPHOLES A [...]
June 26, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Budget, Policy | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Hagan’s challenge

Editorial from this week’s paper: About 16 years ago, the state of Florida passed health care reforms that promised at least a beginning for universal [...]
June 26, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Health Care, NCSenate | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Money changes everything

Pretty detailed and serious analysis by Nate Silver on Health Care Pac contributions and its influence on Senators such as our dear friend Kay Hagan, [...]
June 23, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Health Care | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

She’s not in NC anymore

Those Ruby Slippers musta worked. Doles to speak in Kansas.
April 28, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Current Events | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Democracy NC on activism and the recent elections

Here’s the release from Bob Hall and the gang at Democracy NC on a study of activism in the recent elections: (link to xls file [...]
March 3, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Flags in the snow

It’s the snowiest it’s been in years. Driving in to town, visibility was limited, but everywhere you could see flags waving. They really stood out.
January 20, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Current Events | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink