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Another Dem Recruiting Challenge in NC

By Paul Chesser on 5.20.09 @ 9:29AM

In North Carolina, Democrats thought they had the perfect challenger for 2010 to Sen. Richard Burr in Attorney General Roy Cooper -- until he announced last week that he would not run.

In North Carolina, Democrats thought they had the perfect challenger for 2010 to Sen. Richard Burr in Attorney General Roy Cooper -- until he announced last week that he would not run. Now the party's Senatorial Campaign Committee is going through an exercise which looks eerily similar to 2008 when leaders sought in vain to recruit a "brand name" candidate, and had to settle for no-namer Kay Hagan. We all know what happened next.

topics:
Republican Party, Democratic Party, U.S. Senate Races 2010

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Paul Chesser is executive director for the American Tradition Institute and a senior fellow for the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives. The views he expresses do not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.