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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.
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Barack Obama has shared his views on the economy in a phone call to about 300 supporters in North Carolina. The Democratic presidential candidate had planned to appear in person at the event in Charlotte.
UPDATE: Barack Obama's scheduled visit to North Carolina has been canceled due to an unscheduled landing in St. Louis for maintenance on the presidential candidate's airplane.
Jim Hunt says North Carolina could be in play. The former governor recently told Dome that he believes the state could go for the Democratic presidential nominee for the first time since 1976.
RALEIGH, N.C. (BP)--Jesse Helms, the outspoken and sometimes controversial five-term senator from North Carolina who was a champion of pro-life and pro-family causes, died July 4. He was 86.
The airplane carrying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has made a safe, unscheduled landing in St. Louis after a maintenance issue arose en route from Chicago to Charlotte, North Carolina.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama plans to visit North Carolina and two other Southern states where his campaign thinks he can win or, at least, make inroads.
Democrat Barack Obama sought to link Republican rival John McCain to President Bush's economic policies as the two presidential candidates maneuvered for the upper hand on a top concern of voters. "If you are satisfied with the way things are going now, then you should vote for John McCain," Obama told North Carolina supporters. "If you think that we need a fundamental change ... then we have ...
RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
The Catholic church wants a louder, more powerful voice in North Carolina's government and in its elections.
NORTH CAROLINA -- Presidential candidate Barack Obama will return to North Carolina on Monday. He will meet with working families in Charlotte. It will be the Illinois senator’s second visit to the Queen City since securing the Democratic Party’s nomination. The meeting will be by invitation only.
Jesse Helms forever changed the conservative movement, and the former North Carolina senator did it without ever changing much about himself.
How North Carolina lawmakers voted in Contress the week of June 23.
U.S. Sen. John McCain has not given much to North Carolina candidates.
Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself. There is perhaps no better example of Helms' unwavering commitment to his beliefs than on the issue of race....
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