Dec 15 2009
Poor Elaine Marshall…
Secretary of State Elaine Marshall has picked up the endorsement of two national women’s organization’s in her bid to win the May Democratic Senate primary.
She has been endorsed by the National Organization for Women and the Women’s Campaign Forum, Rob Christensen reports.
The group’s national affiliate, the National Women’s Political Caucus, is also considering backing Marshall, according to the Marshall campaign. The Marshall campaign is hoping her early endorsements from women’s groups will blunt the impact of the backing of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee of one of her opponents, former state Sen. Cal Cunningham. Also in the race is Chapel Hill attorney Kenneth Lewis.
So why do I feel sorry for her? Imagine you’ve been a statewide elected official since 1996 and the first woman elected statewide in N.C. history. You beat Richard Petty (Richard Petty!) to win that race. You’ve been re-elected fairly easily ever since. You’ve built up a network of contacts and support across N.C. It’s YOUR turn, dammit! And now you jump into a U.S. Senate race that your party thinks they can win with the right candidate.
Except your party doesn’t think you’re that candidate. Your party (the D.C. version, anyways) is creaming their jeans over some guy named Cal Cunningham who was an unknown state senator for about 6 minutes back several years ago.
Damn, that sucks.
Cal Cunningham is John Edwards version 2.0.
I really hope the Dems are stupid enough to run with that guy.