John Hood’s column today is on Walter Dalton’s strategy for winning the governorship, which is based upon claiming that the state’s business climate is strong. Bad choice says Hood:
Dalton will never beat McCrory by trying to convince North Carolinians to stay the course. They don’t want to. Also, this strategy implicitly ties him to current Gov. Beverly Perdue, who happens to be one of the most unpopular governors in the United States. Dalton has been trying to distance himself from Perdue for months. But his economic message makes him sound like an incumbent, not an agent of change.
Which means it makes him sound like a loser.
