This weekend the Elaine Marshall for Senate campaign picked-up the endorsements of four more newspapers: The Charlotte Observer, The Wilmington Star-News, The Elizabeth City Daily Advance, and The Southern Pines Pilot.
With the endorsements of both the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh-based News & Observer (both owned by McClatchy newspapers), Marshall has received the endorsement of the state’s two largest newspapers.
The endorsements made this past week increase momentum for the Marshall campaign. Recent polls show the race tightening as the campaign enters the final week.
The News & Observer's editors wrote:
"Elaine Marshall's view of government is that it should serve the many, not the few, whether that means helping to shore up the economy and create jobs, protecting the sick from losing health insurance or ensuring that the predators of Wall Street are brought to justice. What a people's senator she would be."
The Wilmington Star-News' editors wrote:
"She knows that an elected official is supposed to represent the best interests of the people who live in her state, not the special interests that seek disproportionate influence on our government."
The Charlotte Observer wrote
"The Senate has plenty of well-heeled, well-tanned members. It could use more people like Marshall, whose life has been like that of so many North Carolinians: She grew up on a farm and was the first in her family to go to college. She has repeatedly defied the odds and is nearly universally respected for her work as North Carolina's secretary of state since 1996.
Everything about her personality and her record suggest that as a U.S. senator, she would stay true to her roots and stay intensely focused on the needs of the average North Carolinian."
Marshall's opponent, Senator Richard Burr (R), has also received endorsements from two major newspapers, the Asheville Citizen-Times and the Winston-Salem Journal, his hometown newspaper.
Early voting has started acoss the state and will continue until Saturday. Sec. Marshall's campaign announced in a press release Monday night that she will cast her own ballot at 1:00 p.m. in her hometown of Lillington in Harnett County Tuesday. She will speak to voters before entering the Board of Elections office to vote.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 2nd. If you are not registered to vote, you can still register during Early Voting, but not on Election Day.
Comments
LOL, you think her campaign is gaining momentum due to these newspaper endorsements? What a joke. They only endorsed her b/c Burr refuses to give them interviews based on their partisan past. They burned the bridges and now they are stuck on the wrong side. We all know Marshall doesn't stand a chance.
The polls say different, but the only the one that counts wil be announced next Tuesday.
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