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Governor's Race Stew
Apr 29, 2008 | 10:07 PM
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I've been simmering over the governor's candidates for some time, letting it marinate, or 'get happy' in Emeril Lagasse terms.  The real choice is not on May 6, but in November.  That's when we'll see true differences between the party nominees.

Everyone says they loathe negative campaign ads, but they work.  Just ask Secretary of State Richard Moore.  He has closed the race between himself and Lieutenant Governor Bev Perdue down to single digits.  Perdue, hoping to generate good will among voters (and stop her sliding poll numbers) publically denounced negative ads, vowing only to run positive ads during the last weeks of the primary.

Last week's face-to-face debate between the two candidates was far more cordial than contentious, taking the "let's all get along" mantra to new levels.  Both Perdue and Moore said they would whole-heartedly support the democrat party's nominee for governor, and they seemed to mean it, but you just felt neither thought for a minute they would lose.  
 
Each of the four main republican candidates can't seem to agree enough on every issue.  Illegal immigration seems to be the only area where there is a slight difference of opinion, with the emphasis on slight.  Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory has raised the most money, based on the latest campaign finance reports.  State Senator Fred Smith, Salisbury attorney Bill Graham and former state Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr have respectably raised and spent the least.  McCrory is the only candidate who has not loaned money to his campaign.  Part of that can be attributed to not entering the race until a few months ago,

The real race won't begin until after the republican runoff.  Then we'll see how desperately democrats want to keep the governor's mansion and how republicans want to begin a new era.
 
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Apr 30, 2008 | 8:05 PM

BAM - as Emeril would say. Just when I thought the stew was simmering down, Fred Smith throws in a big helping of hot sauce. Smith now leads a new Mason-Dixon poll that canvassed likely voters on their choice for republican candidate for governor. The poll was commissioned by WRAL and WBTV.

Smith's one-point lead over Pat McCrory is well within the margin of error. But when you spend seven figures, greatly outspending the other candidates, one would expect better results.

Granted, it's a close race, but does North Carolina have its own Mitt Romney? I'll admit I may be jumping the gun, but these poll results are like accidentally biting down on a jalapeno pepper.
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"The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the neck down." Huey P. Long (1893-1935), former Louisiana governor and U.S. Senator

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