? The race between Beverly Perdue and Pat McCrory remains close despite an independent-expenditure ad campaign against McCrory. A Democratic poll with bad news for Elizabeth Dole also has good news for McCrory. Small-business group NFIB endorses McCrory and Dole while the Conservation Council of NC gives Perdue the nod.
? The two national party conventions drew record television audiences, but many North Carolina candidates stay home to campaign rather than make the journeys to Denver and St. Paul.
? The Greensboro News & Record wonders who the Dole campaign is quoting as having called Kay Hagan “Fibber Kay.” The new ad is part of the Republican’s response to a strong Hagan challenge, which is being aided by independent expenditures. Dole speaks at a Nash County GOP get-together and the state’s emergency-operations center in Raleigh. The Dole-Hagan race is part of an unprecedented showing by female candidates as nominees in major races on the N.C. ballot. Dole, Hagan, and Libertarian nominee Chris Cole differ significant on issues related to labor unions.
? Gubernatorial candidate Michael Munger and other state Libertarian candidates get some major coverage in Sunday’s News & Observer.
