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After batting .750, a swing at '07
Rob Christensen: Robin, I did you wrong, big guy. I predicted a year ago in my annual fearless predictions column that Republican U.S. Rep. Robin Hayes from Concord would lose his re-election campaign.
Jones survives war stand
Rob Christensen: There were those who thought U.S. Rep. Walter Jones had committed political hara-kiri last year. Jones, a conservative Republican, was saying 18 months ago that the Bush administration should set a timetable to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq.
Black's mistakes added up
Rob Christensen: Jim Black was the one indispensible man in the state House.
Books speak volumes
Rob Christensen:Call it book politics. No, this is not an article about the latest controversies over Salman Rushdie stirring up the Muslim world or whether the racist language in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" belongs on high school bookshelves.
Dismissal of Kissell backfires
Rob Christensen:Rahm Emanuel is one of the cool kids. Larry Kissell is not.
Women in politics toe a line
Rob Christensen:What do women want? Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, famously asked.
Spending turns red areas blue
Rob Christensen:Margaret Johnson was worried on election night that the walls would literally come tumbling down at the Democratic headquarters in the small North Carolina foothills town of Columbus.
Winners, losers and a sleeper
Rob Christensen:When the dust cleared from the midterm elections last week, North Carolina remained one of the most closely divided states in a closely divided country.
Six bits of wisdom from the ballot box
Rob Christensen:Here are six lessons from the '06 elections in North Carolina.
Profs drawn to spotlight
Rob Christensen:They are the media stars of academia. Call them Op-Ed-Pages-Are-Us. Or Dial-a-Quote. Or maybe instant expertise -- just add water.
Voters deserve a choice
Rob Christensen:They trotted out a couple of the ol' boys last week to talk about our rigged political system.
Farewell to a wag, an orator
Rob Christensen:"I could have been a great politician if only I had started right," Herbert Hyde once remarked. "Unfortunately, my mother taught me to tell the truth."
Susie, B.A., still can't read
Christensen:I was riding down an elevator with some 30-ish guy in Raleigh a few years ago when I was dumbstruck by a comment he made.
Trial shows capital's shady side
Christensen:Before his corruption trial, Kevin L. Geddings could have walked into Sullivan's Steak House or any political hangout in town and no one would have put down a bite of filet mignon to stare.
Our taxes not high or low
Rob Christensen:Mae West, Marilyn Monroe and Madonna never did much for me. But Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset and Angie Harmon? Oh, my.
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