BlueNC Gubernatorial Debate

Welcome State Treasurer Richard Moore and thank you for participating in the BlueNC Gubernatorial Debate.

Richard Moore and Bev Perdue will face off in the NC primary election on May 6, 2008. Tonight is your chance to ask Richard Moore the questions that will help you decide how you will vote in May. Please follow below the fold to view the debate, leave questions and respond to Richard Moore's answers to your questions.

Welcome Lt. Governor Bev Perdue and thank you for participating in the BlueNC Gubernatorial Debate.

Bev Perdue and Richard Moore will face off in the NC primary election on May 6, 2008. Tonight is your chance to ask Bev Perdue the questions that will help you decide how you will vote in May. Please follow below the fold to view the debate, leave questions and respond to Bev Perdue's answers to your questions.

Welcome to BlueNC. We have a lot of visitors this morning. We're glad you've dropped by and hope you'll come back by this evening for the debate between Bev Perdue and Richard Moore. We also hope you'll stop by more often and feel free to join in the discussions. Sometimes they're valuable and sometimes we're ranting, raving and singing to the choir.

Regular users will notice some of our site features disappearing throughout the day. We are trying to streamline the site to prepare for higher traffic volumes. I promise we will turn everything back on after traffic dies later tonight.

Below is the email we sent to the Moore and Perdue campaigns yesterday about broad topics for tomorrow's debate. As you look over these, please keep in mind this comment from Brunette in one of the earlier "questions" threads.

Questions should be short. Questions should be challenging. But what makes a question "tough" isn't necessarily the philosophical difficulty of a given issue. In fact, the more complex the question, the easier it is for a politician to dodge it. Sometimes what is interesting and revealing is not a question that necessarily looks "tough" but one that is sufficiently succinct that it is difficult to dodge, and yet provides insight into how the candidate thinks.