I wrote a prior post on the local outlook of the upcoming election and I received some feedback on the current state of the congressional race in District 5 between Virginia Foxx and Roy Carter. Apparently the race is tighter than most people expect it to be.

Perhaps it is. There is some polling to suggest that Foxx’s lead in the race is not insurmountable if she has one at all. Thing is though I hardly see any presence of Carter in the area where I live. He has one commercial (The Coach) that gets intermittent play locally. Signage seems predominantly Foxx; On my trip to the mountains, 90% of the signs especially around Boone appear to be Foxx’s.

As for Foxx herself, she seems to be keeping a low profile. I have not seen any rallies by her and she has one ad running occasionally that is re-run from two years ago. I think her most vigourous campaign was when she had to compete against other Republicans in their primary four years ago to replace Richard Burr.

Still, it would be nice to see her go. Her type of conservatism which runs to the far right seems to be out of place with the transformation of North Carolina into a swing state. If she says something as outrageous as Michelle Bachmann did in dividing the country into pro-America and anti-America parts, then Carter could see a bump in contributions to be competitive. As it is, there are higher priority congressional seats that the Democratic party is trying to win in this election cycle so it is unlikely that the party will send significant funds his way especially this late in the campaign.

Still, it would be nice if he had the money to run advertising such as this one, a true indictment of who Foxx really is: