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	<description>Taking the uncertainty out of North Carolina politics.</description>
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		<title>The Hunt for the Republican Jim Hunt.  Helms went to DC.  Hunt stayed home; the NC GOP&#8217;s worst nightmare.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Hunt criticized the Democratic controlled General Assembly for raising taxes in 1991 during the recession, saying the budgetary shortfall was ‘sheer government mismanagement.’&#8221;[i] Rob Christensen, News &#38; Observer, The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics Twenty-five years ago, in Washington DC, U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican, was beginning his third term in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johndavisconsulting.com/2010/06/24/the-hunt-for-the-republican-jim-hunt-helms-went-to-dc-hunt-stayed-home-the-nc-gops-worst-nightmare/</link>
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		<title>Is the NC Democratic Party the Toyota of State Politics?  Top 10 Political Liabilities Leading to Loss of Voter Market Share; Part V: Liability 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part V: Liability 10 “What&#8217;s disappointing to me,&#8221; said Stupak, &#8220;is learning that Toyota seems to have focused more on discrediting its critics than on solving the problem.&#8221; Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, May 20, 2010, U.S. House Commerce Committee Hearing on Toyota’s sudden acceleration problems[i] Obama: Walking on Oily Water in a Sea of Disappointments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johndavisconsulting.com/2010/06/11/is-the-nc-democratic-party-the-toyota-of-state-politics-top-10-political-liabilities-leading-to-loss-of-voter-market-share-part-v-liability-10/</link>
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		<title>Is the NC Democratic Party the Toyota of State Politics?  Top 10 Political Liabilities Leading to Loss of Voter Market Share; Part IV: Liability 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part IV: Liability 9 “The Toyota affair emphasizes some basic points of management. First, any company, no matter how large and how famous for its merits, can stumble into grave error. Second, damaged pride and nervous fear make it difficult to correct the error in good time. Third, management decisions should normally never be taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johndavisconsulting.com/2010/06/03/is-the-nc-democratic-party-the-toyota-of-state-politics-top-10-political-liabilities-leading-to-loss-of-voter-market-share-part-iv-liability-9/</link>
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		<title>Is the NC Democratic Party the Toyota of State Politics?  Top 10 Political Liabilities Leading to Loss of Voter Market Share; Part III: Liabilities 7-8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part III: Liabilities 7-8 “Our first job is to vote out all politicians, local, state and federal, who work against the founding philosophy and principals of our country.”[i] W. David Stedman, Ret. Chmn., Stedman Corporation, Asheboro, The Destruction of the Great American Dream This is Part III in a series of reports suggesting that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johndavisconsulting.com/2010/05/20/is-the-nc-democratic-party-the-toyota-of-state-politics-top-10-political-liabilities-leading-to-loss-of-voter-market-share-part-iii-liabilities-7-8/</link>
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		<title>Is the NC Democratic Party the Toyota of State Politics? Top 10 Political Liabilities Leading to Loss of Voter Market Share; Part II: Liabilities 5 &#8211; 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part II: Liabilities 5 &#8211; 6 NC Republicans do not have to raise the political bar closer to that of Democrats to seize power in 2010 if Democrats lower their political bar closer to that of Republicans. This is Part II in a series of reports suggesting that the North Carolina Democratic Party is much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johndavisconsulting.com/2010/05/12/is-the-nc-democratic-party-the-toyota-of-state-politics-top-10-political-liabilities-leading-to-loss-of-voter-market-share-part-ii-liabilities-5-6/</link>
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		<title>Is the NC Democratic Party the Toyota of State Politics? Top 10 Political Liabilities Leading to Loss of Voter Market Share; Part I: Liabilities 1 &#8211; 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part I:  Liabilities 1 &#8211; 4 NC Republicans do not have to raise the political bar closer to that of Democrats to seize power in 2010 if Democrats lower their political bar closer to that of Republicans. Toyota Motor Company has lost market share because of worldwide recalls of millions of its cars due to management mistakes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johndavisconsulting.com/2010/04/29/is-the-nc-democratic-party-the-toyota-of-state-politics-top-10-political-liabilities-leading-to-loss-of-voter-market-share/</link>
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		<title>Cannon to the Right of Them, Cannon to the Left of Them; SEANC&#8217;s Dana Cope went Rogue before Palin made it Vogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“If the effort [North Carolina First political party] does manage to get on the ballot, expect candidates in U.S. House races in Districts 7 [Democrat Mike McIntyre], District 8 [Democrat Larry Kissell] and District 11 [Democrat Heath Shuler]. They&#8217;re the homes of the three Democratic members of Congress who voted against their party&#8217;s healthcare bill.” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johndavisconsulting.com/2010/04/22/cannon-to-the-right-of-them-cannon-to-the-left-of-them-new-union-political-party-to-ambush-conservative-democrats/</link>
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		<title>Archbishop Tutu on Growing Corn and Changing Government; Tea’d and looking for something to throw overboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Americans’ favorable rating of the Democratic Party dropped to 41% in the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, the lowest point in the 18 year history of this measure.&#8221;[i]    USA Today/Gallup poll, April 8, 2010 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end apartheid in South Africa, told the following story when he spoke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johndavisconsulting.com/2010/04/09/archbishop-tutu-on-growing-corn-and-changing-government-tea%e2%80%99d-and-looking-for-something-to-throw-overboard-besides-tea/</link>
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		<title>It is the Republicans to Lose, and they are Capable of Losing It: We have met the enemy, and he is us.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“In the time of Joseph McCarthyism, celebrated in the Pogo strip by a character named Simple J. Malarkey, I attempted to explain each individual is wholly involved in the democratic process, work at it or no.  The results of the process fall on the head of the public and he who is recalcitrant or procrastinates in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johndavisconsulting.com/2010/04/01/it-is-the-republicans-to-lose-and-they-are-capable-of-losing-it-we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/</link>
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		<title>Connecting the Dots: NC Big Business &amp; Big Labor Pool Resources to Wipe Out Free Market Conservatives in NC Senate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Basnight often gives campaign money to the state Democratic Party, which can give  unlimited amounts to legislative candidates.&#8221; AP, March 18, 2010 1 Last Thursday night, former Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt hosted a fundraiser for Democratic Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.  According to the Associated Press, 300 to 400 people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johndavisconsulting.com/2010/03/24/connecting-the-dots-nc-big-business-big-labor-pool-resources-to-wipe-out-free-market-conservatives-in-nc-senate/</link>
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