If North Carolina\’s Democrat Senator Kay Hagan had shown up at tonight\’s scheduled debate with Republican opponent Thom Tillis, she would, no doubt, have been asked some hard questions about her families\’ businesses getting fat on government energy subsidies.
You can read all about this issue (or scandal, if that is your opinion) by clicking here.
But you won\’t be able to hear Ms. Hagan answer those hard questions. Because she decided it would be smarter to just duck the debate altogether.
That\’s right. Two weeks before the election, Kay Hagan ducked her debate with Thom Tillis rather than be there to attempt a defense of her husband\’s and son\’s business dealings.
How badly did Kay Hagan think she would have fared in this debate, for her to hand what amounted to an hour-long campaign speech to Mr. Tillis at this critical juncture in the campaign? The answer to that question very well may win or lose this senate race.
Let\’s keep an eye on a) how media cover Hagan\’s remarkable no-show, and b) where the polls move because of it.
