CQPolitics.com has a terrific story on Harold Johnson’s hopes of unseating U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell in North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District.

The story lends a couple grafs to an idea explored by Carolina Journal in June ? the impact of centrist Democrats’ votes for Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker:

[W]hile Democrats say Kissell?s voting record will play well in his battleground district, Republicans are convinced there?s one vote in particular that will prove to be Kissell?s undoing: his vote to elect Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.

?The message is very clear,? Johnson said. ?If you?re happy with the direction of the country right now, if you?re happy with Nancy Pelosi as Speaker, vote for Larry.?