For those of you who have been in a cave this weekend...

I have received email from her campaign and others on Facebook but if you did not hear and don't live in Raleigh go to the Editorial Page for the News and Observer's Endorsement of Elaine Marshall for the U. S. Senate.

I know there is an "endorsements" thread going. But this news deserves a little more attention than a general endorsement.

Elaine Marshall's life is in many ways a mirror, many mirrors, of the lives of the people of North Carolina. It is a life marked if not defined by adversity. But it has been adversity overcome, and it's no overstatement to say that it very well could be a life inspiring to others.

Now Marshall, North Carolina's Democratic secretary of state, faces another big challenge, one that few "professional" observers think she has a chance of overcoming, and that is a bid to become one of North Carolina's two U.S. senators. She has The News & Observer's editorial endorsement for the office.

Go, Elaine, Go!