Malone vs. Holding
Just want to say I plan, as the Democratic Party nominee for the 13th Congressional District, to run a serious challenge against Holding, contrary to what some blogs are writing tonight. It will be tough, but we can do it.
Our 99% values will stand in stark contrast to their 1% values. So, take heart, this seat is too value to simply give away with our best efforts. It will be tough to fight their big bucks, but there is "more than one way to skin a cat."
Charles Malone
www.malone4congress.com
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You're gonna have to go
For the throat.
He has two strengths....ready
He has two strengths....ready cash and the wrong kind of Democrat in the 13th. You'll have to find a way to keep them in the fold. Then you'll need to evenly split the Indy vote. To do that, play up his weaknesses...
1) he bought his candidacy with a business-as-usual superPAC.
2) he's the scion of a banking family....raise the question concerning exactly who does everyone think he's going to Washington to represent?
3) constantly remind people that this "tough" prosecutor blew millions of taxpayer dollars going after Edwards and Easley and couldn't get within a mile of a conviction in either case.
and 4) push a populist message that should appeal to Indies and may even soften Tea Party support for Holding, with whom he is not popular. You might even get some Coble voters, not because of anything you say or do, but because some of them are enraged with Holding and will try to deny him a seat this time on the assumption that they can knock you off in 2014. Remember, in spite of a devastating (to Coble) barrage of ads, he still couldn't get 66% of his party's vote. There has to be some weakness in there somewhere. I'm thinking that his victory strategy is to get enough Indies and ticket splitting Democrats to supplement his Republican core, which will probably be somewhat eroded, given the people he alienated by the way he won the primary.
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Thank you for the intelligent summary on how to compete against Holding. I'll be working along the lines you suggest.
I will walk easily in the rural areas of the 13th because my roots are there...I've worked cotton and tobacco fields, sweated inside a real cotton mill and been sent to Vietnam...well, you get the picture.
My message will be one I think will resonate with the people who give me a chance, who will listen, if not the far-right, because my proposals offer hope and a way up from our economic woes, not a prattle of "cut, cut, cut" to every problem imaginable.
Charles Malone