When the News & Observer runs an Associated Press headline like “NC House candidate apologizes for 2 DWI charges,” you know the “candidate” has to be a Democrat.

[Randy] Wolfe, a former producer for the CBS Evening News who recently moved to Surry County, said Monday he turned off his campaign web site Monday morning but hadn’t withdrawn from Tuesday’s election against Republican Rep. Sarah Stevens.

The AP reporter never uses the “D” word in the article.

I am no John Hood when it comes to election analysis, but I am going to predict a Stevens victory in NC House 90.