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Battleground North Carolina - Democrats Sweep Local Elections
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Nov 09, 2011 01:47pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Michael Carmichael |
| Media | Website - Huffington Post |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 9, 2011 03:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The votes are in, and the ballots have been tabulated. It is now official. It's a Democratic landslide.
David Parker, Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, proclaimed victory: "All across the state, the voters in North Carolina's counties and municipalities rejected the Tea Party and its extremist views."
Voters repudiated the Tea Party agenda backed by North Carolina's notorious political boss, Art Pope. A billionaire and staunch ally of the Koch brothers, Art Pope is the local face of a multi-tentacled political machine. Working hand-in-glove as a dynamic duo of the political right, Pope is grooming his well-heeled acolyte, Pat McCrory, to run for governor in 2012. But, at the crucial hurdle, they stumbled.
Across this most politically embattled state in the nation, Democrats mobilized and routed Republicans. Parker zeroed in on McCrory's ignominious role in the Republican rout, "Pat McCrory's hand-picked candidates in Charlotte's City Council and Wake County's School Board race were soundly defeated in spite of his annoying robo-calls and the strenuous machinations of his well-oiled political machine." |
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