? A new Rasmussen poll shows John McCain and Barack Obama neck-and-neck in North Carolina at 45 percent and 43 percent, respectively. Amazingly, the same survey put Elizabeth Dole 14 points above Kay Hagan (53-39) while Beverly Perdue and Pat McCrory are essentially tied (47-46).
? McCrory and Perdue have clearly distinguishable positions on the death penalty, says an anti-execution group. Perdue supports a moratorium while McCrory was one of the few local elected officials to actively oppose the moratorium push.
? Sen. John Ensign, who chairs the GOP’s Senate campaign effort, analyzes the competitive races for Congressional Quarterly and argues that Dole is such a strong candidate that ?she should be toward the bottom, just off the list or barely on it.?
