Politico: “Republicans are on the verge of wiping out what stays of Democrats’ political energy in North Carolina. The one factor they want is for the possible nominee for governor to not blow it up. On Saturday, when the state’s lightning rod Republican lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, formally publicizes his gubernatorial marketing campaign, polls counsel he’ll immediately turn out to be the frontrunner for the nomination. He’ll saddle the GOP with a laundry record of his previous public controversies.”