Somebody at the NRSC feels good about Thom Tillis:
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is planning to reserve more than $6 million in additional North Carolina airtime Monday, sources tell POLITICO.
The article says the committee is “seeing overnight tracking numbers that show the race tightening.”
It’s worth noting that the Libertarian candidate, Sean Haugh, continues to draw a significant percentage of voters. In the latest Survey USA poll, Tillis actually leads head-to-head with Hagan, 46 percent to 45 percent. But when the Libertarian candidate is an option, Hagan leads, 44 percent to 41 percent.
Haugh — “Libertarian” — not only supports term limits, but (tongue-in-cheek?) calls for term limits for “aides, bureaucrats, journalists, and anyone in the political class.” That may be a good idea or a bad idea, but it’s hardly a limited-government idea to impose new rules on who can participate in the political process.
He also wants to “stop all war” and this is his response to U.S. military action vs ISIS:
Somebody has got to look you dead in the eye and remind you that killing people is wrong. And I guess that somebody has got to be me. . . . If you want an excuse to keep on killing, you’ve come to the wrong guy. Killing people is wrong, period. Somebody has got to be smart enough to see the results and realize that we’ve got to try another way. Somebody has got to be moral enough to be the first to stop the killing. And it’s got to be us . . .
The people you see on the news are not abstract concepts. Those dead bodies are real. Real human beings who have been murdered to advance some government policy of ours, whether it’s in Mosul, or Gaza, or Ferguson, or Nogales.
It’s long past time we tried different, peaceful solutions. I’m Sean Haugh, and I am not at war.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=m16_07Y_Z2g%3Frel%3D0
Maybe Tillis’s messaging in the closing weeks ought to be something that can peel off a portion of the Libertarian demographic? His desire to eliminate the federal Export-Import Bank? Concerns about NSA abuses?
Gay marriage and drug testing for those collecting public benefits are out, obviously.