North Carolina race heats up

The biggest races in the US sen­ate con­test may be in North Car­oli­na.

The most expen­sive elec­tion cam­paign in the his­to­ry of North Car­oli­na elec­tions has been a huge con­tention among some vot­ers.

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North Car­oli­na Sen. Kay Hagan is sit­ting on the most expen­sive hot seat in Sen­ate his­to­ry.

Spend­ing in her Sen­ate race against Repub­li­can State House Speak­er Thom Tillis topped $100 mil­lion, accord­ing to the Sun­light Foun­da­tion—$10 mil­lion more than the sec­ond most expen­sive Sen­ate con­test this year in Col­orado, and rough­ly $30 mil­lion more than the prici­est Con­gres­sion­al race in his­to­ry before 2014.

Hagan and Tillis have been run­ning neck-and-neck for months. In the lat­est CNN/ORC poll Fri­day, Hagan’s lead was with­in the mar­gin of error, 48 to 46 per­cent. But the close­ness of the race doesn’t ful­ly explain the costs. Across the map, endan­gered Democ­rats and Repub­li­can hope­fuls are locked in com­pet­i­tive con­tests with­in the mar­gin of error.

The truth may be some­thing that the media may be find­ing hard to swal­low and in fact with all the media spin vot­ers may be feel­ing a lit­tle beligered with all the switch and bait ads as well as the out­ra­geous con­tention that seems to be a big part of this race.

With Mil­lions and mil­lions of dol­lars being poured into this elec­tion you have to won­der what the vot­ers will do, many expect to see a dif­fer­ent result that what the media is churn­ing out.

That might make for a great Crow Eat­ing News cycle in the com­ing days but the truth is that the media hard­ly ever admit when they are wrong.   In the words of Stephen King ” they have for­got­ten the faces of their fathers”  The media appear to be so out of touch with the peo­ple that they can­not iden­ti­fy with the mood of this nation and that is why it is more impor­tant than ever to get out and vote.