Frank Eaton's blog

Excerpted from Summer Lipford's online response to an article in the Winston-Salem Journal yesterday:

Contacting me 10 weeks after his funeral with a form letter of condolence does not constitute her assistance, assistance not that I asked for-- but begged for. I am not malicious, disgusting or dishonest. I had nothing to gain by telling my story. I am a mother who grieves every day for my child and prays no other mother has to walk my path, no other mother has to live with the lack of concern and disrespect shown to my son and myself by Virginia Foxx. As I have stated, none of this can change for me, but by electing Roy Carter I know it will not happen again.

This story was also the lead on WXII last night.

Further evidence that the tenacious Carter campaign is drawing blood in the besieged mountain communities of NC-05:

House Editor David Wasserman releases ratings changes in an additional 12 districts. The GOP internal "death list" memo, leaked to U.S.News and World Report's Paul Bedard, exposes just how white-knuckled some in the Republican conference are. At this point, the choice Republican strategists face is not whether to play offense or defense, but rather where it's still worth playing defense.

Ratings Changes:

NC-05 Virginia Foxx Solid Republican to Likely Republican

COME ON DCCC! I know you're paying attention to this race! We've got FIVE DAYS to make those last minute media buys!

Philanthropist and Progressive Democrat Paul Newman has died.

The line between comedy and our politics continues to blur further as Tina Fey fulfills her destiny and dons the beehive to play Sarah Palin...PERFECTLY. Hilarious except that this comedy skit is this election.

Finally, some data to back up all the arm-waving, coat tugging and jumping up and down that we in the Carter campaign have been doing since the primary! Brother Tom Jensen from the PPP interprets this weeks' Democracy Corps poll:

The closest Congressional district in the state is the 5th, where Virginia Foxx leads Roy Carter 48-46. I really hope the DCCC and other folks take the pick up opportunity in this district seriously. There are races on the Red to Blue list that based on the data I've seen are less winnable than this one.

This feels like a blatant abuse of my front-page privileges, but it's for the common good and I'll un-frontpage it this afternoon.

Kossacks: Please recommend and comment on the Diary here! Like, now please.

A couple of months ago, someone I know (wink) discovered that the domain "VirginiaFoxxForCongress.com" was available for purchase. So it got purchased. And now it's up and needs some traffic. Please click through:

www.VirginiaFoxxForCongress.com

Roy Carter took his battle for Virginia Foxx's seat in Congress to the airwaves last night, running this ad in the district during Barack Obama's triumphant acceptance speech and ESPN's coverage of Wake Forest football's decimation of Baylor.

Message: GAME ON!

And your thoughts are...?

The whole debate, in clips; not for right now, especially, but when you've got the time.

Robert Greenwald has released a new viral video about the many mansions of John McCain. It's disgusting.

However, I've also been doing some thinking (in the aftermath of the Edwards whizzbang) about how wealthy candidates are able to inflate their own bubbles, float safely within them above the machinery of party and populi, and thus avoid so much of what makes financially scrappy politicians more accountable.

The Primary is over! Time to replace the somber "Yes We Can" on your iPod with one of these upbeat supporter produced Obama Songs I found on Youtube!

Ok, who's going to New Bern this weekend?