That’s the first question. The next question would be who’s Cal Cunningham working for?

Locker Room answers the first question (look for the names Obama, Kerry, Edwards and—last but not least —Easley) while Elaine Marshall’s campaign answers question number two:

Marshall’s campaign consultant, Thomas Mills, called Cunningham “the hokey-pokey candidate.”

“First he’s in, then he’s out. Now he’s in. Where’s he going to be next week?” Mills said. “He wouldn’t get in it until he got the nod from Washington power brokers.”

Cunningham, who works in Winston-Salem, is widely seen as the preferred candidate of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the arm of the national party that can provide crucial fundraising support to Democrats running in close races. Earlier this year, the DSCC tried — and failed — to recruit several well-known North Carolina Democrats to run for Senate.

Ah yes, we’ve seen this before with Senator Hagan —how’s that working out?