Activists favoring Neal for Senate [News & Record]

by Mark Binker
News & Record

RALEIGH - Ask 10 voters who identify themselves as “progressive” Democrats what their wing of the party believes in, and you might very well get 10 different answers.

Passionate and motivated, progressives - particularly the activists among them - are not given to lockstep thinking.

Still, those who identify themselves as progressives seem to be rallying more to Chapel Hill financial adviser Jim Neal than to Greensboro state Sen. Kay Hagan .

The voting bloc is far from decisive. But if the trend holds, it could be good news for Neal, whose campaign relies on the grass-roots one-on-one politicking that progressive activists favor.

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