McCrory in, bets off
Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory made his campaign official today after a month of doing his best Hamlet imitation: To be, or not to be, a Republican candidate for governor.
Alas, poor Yorik, his opening lines got stepped on by a passing train rolling through Jamestown.
"We knew the train was coming sooner or later," McCrory said.
Same could be said of all the speculation surrounding his campaign for the past two months.
I've been talking to various Republican officials for a story in tomorrow's paper. Most are convinced that a run-off is now inevitable, since the four front-running candidates now in the race are credible and will be slicing up the same 1 million or so voter pie. No one candidate, at this point, looks capable of pulling off 40 percent of the vote in the first go around which means a June 24 second primary would be in store.
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Maybe he should have announced in Hamlet instead of Greensboro.
Posted on January 15, 2008 9:55 PM