Elaine Marshall for U.S. Senate? Well, that’s a tough question …
Final answer? Don’t have one. This is strictly first impression. And I want to say, too, that I have yet to make Cal Cunningham’s acquaintance or Ken Lewis’s. (They are the other two announced candidates in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.) So in reporting that Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, when she spoke Tuesday night in Cary, gave me no reason to think she ought to be the next U.S. senator from North Carolina, I’m not making a comparative judgment. I’m just saying that any candidate, but especially a Democrat challenger in 2010, needs to show some fire and tell you exactly how she’s going to make a difference in Washington when she gets there. Marshall, in Cary, did a poor job on both counts.
