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Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The North Carolina waterfront community of Elizabeth City witnessed an early skirmish in a high-stakes political battle over registering new black voters, which may help decide the outcome of the presidential election.
ROANOKE RAPIDS - Michael Munger sees victory in the North Carolina governor race and all he needs to win is 2 percent of the vote.
The scholarship program started by former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards that has sent rural high school graduates to college for free is ending after three years, a newspaper reported Thursday.
A new Republican political committee seeking to get Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory elected North Carolina governor is breaking the law by how it funnels money through its national group, according to a complaint filed Wednesday.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina won't be attending the Republican national convention, which begins over Labor Day weekend.
The scholarship program started by former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards that has sent rural high-school graduates to college for free is ending after a three-year run.
Republican gubernatorial candidates like Pat McCrory have found eastern North Carolina politically barren. One GOP gubernatorial candidate after another has stumbled in the sandy soil.
I recently attended a special political-discussion panel at North Carolina's annual 4-H Congress in Raleigh. It included four stellar young panelists from the 4-H ranks and attracted the attention of hundreds of the state's most impressive and accomplished youth.
North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Edmunds Jr., brought his re-election campaign to Kinston Tuesday, which heads to Union County next week.
Winning eastern North Carolina will be crucial for Barack Obama if the Democratic presidential candidate is going to turn the state blue in November, campaign officials say, so they recently opened a Greenville office to help them do it.
Melissa Jarrell has filed a complaint with the North Carolina Board of Elections against Sen. Julia Boseman, D-Hanover, alleging her name was forged on campaign finance reports.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A tabloid report that former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards was caught visiting a mistress at a Beverly Hills hotel is threatening to ruin Edwards' future in politics.
The State Employees Association of North Carolina said Monday it has endorsed Democratic Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue for governor, four years after the group surprisingly backed the Republican candidate.
MORGANTON - More voters are expected to turn out for November's General Election and an election reform group is calling for more early-voting locations across the state. Burke County elections officials plan to open more early-voting spots than in 2004. Voter registration has increased by more than a quarter-million people in North Carolina in 2008. Democracy North Carolina estimated that ...
Police are investigating a head-on collision that left a North Carolina woman dead.
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.
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