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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Campaigners for Barack Obama are launching a statewide canvassing effort to register new voters and encourage North Carolina voters to back the Democratic presidential candidate.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) -- Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic party, promised North Carolina residents that his party would win the state in the upcoming presidential election. Dean said the party's strategy involves getting regular voters to convince their friends whom to vote for. Dean wasn't shy about admitting the strategy was borrowed from Republican Karl Rove.
Pat McCrory campaigns in Carteret County. EMERALD ISLE — Offshore drilling could be the key to increasing jobs and improvIng the economy in Eastern North Carolina, according to Republic gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is rolling through North Carolina, registering voters in an effort to back presidential candidate Barack Obama.
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Legislature and the courts have introduced a new type of political committee that can receive unlimited amounts of money from individuals to run ads for or against candidates.
If there's one thing North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory wants to establish, it's this: The days of inaccessibility to state government will be gone if he wins November's election.
Mayor Charles Meeker may live in Boylan Heights, but he's also the leader of a city that does an awful lot of business with the state of North Carolina.
Gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory supports drilling for natural gas reserves off North Carolina's coast. "It's time to look for energy solutions for our country," McCrory said Wednesday in New Bern. "We can't be independent if we are relying on Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Russia. ...
On June 10, the North Carolina Association of Realtors announced a $10 million plan to "educate the public on key issues," including the awfulness of property transfer taxes.
A Republican group has moved quickly to take advantage of a change in election laws to raise money from well-heeled contributors across the country to help elect Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory as North Carolina’s next governor.
North Carolina is amid an unusually intense and early presidential campaign -- with television commercials, the opening of campaign headquarters and the hiring of field staff taking place weeks before the national conventions.
Former presidential candidate John Edwards has been linked by The National Enquirer to a woman it alleges is his mistress. The tabloid reported that Edwards, 54, of North Carolina, met with a woman named Rielle Hunter at the Beverly Hilton in California on Monday night, July 21.
An elections watchdog group warned Monday that voters could face long lines at the polls in November, judging from increases in voter registration. You can look ahead and see this horrible traffic jam, Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina, a Durham-based research and advocacy center, said in a news release. Click here for more on this story.
It's taking the North Carolina state crime lab between 15 and 18 months to get drug evidence processed. Bob Crumley, Republican candidate for North Carolina Attorney General, wants to do something about that.
CHARLOTTE -- A former prisoner of war who served with presidential candidate John McCain made his pitch on Tuesday for other North Carolina veterans to support the Arizona senator’s campaign.
Voter registration has grown by more than 250,000 people in North Carolina in 2008, an election-reform group said yesterday as it warned of long lines come Election Day unless early voting is expanded.
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