Is she following the dictates of the national Democratic leaders who pushed her to give up, or is she "leaving her party in a lurch with her decision not to run just as the candidate filing period began"?

You just buttered your insult bread on both sides by insulting her for either possible motivations for not running, thereby proving that your whole aim for this article was to be as abusively insulting as possible with no other possible motivation, because you just said a big fat ZERO with your political rhetoric! That's right, you said NOTHING but a bunch of insults at the sitting governor. Ida don't think even O'Riley dares to stoop that low, but this is Wilmngton after all...

I suppose Governor Easley was your kind of leader? He was male, you gotta say that much for him...