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The World Holds its Breath -- WE KNOW THE RESULTS

Linda Bergthold | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics

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Obama has a lead that can overcome the Bradley effect or snow, sleet or rain, or the pundits constant need to keep this thing alive by mentioning obscure polls that show McCain getting closer.

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Kay Hagan, Elizabeth Dole Senate Election Results: Hagan Defeats Dole

Huffington Post | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

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***Check Back For Updates And Results As They Become Available*** ***UPDATE, 11/4 8:54 pm*** CNN and NBC project that Kay Hagan has defeated Elizabe...

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Openly Gay Newcomer Rises From Precinct Leader to Candidate for N.C. State Office

Wes Isley | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home

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Q&A with Wade Boyles For someone who had never volunteered for a political campaign until this year, Wade Boyles, 36, of Winston-Salem, N.C., hasn't ...

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North Carolina Provides Insight Into Changing Southern Politics

Yuna Shin | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home

Wilmington, N.C. -- Polls have shown Obama slightly ahead of McCain in North Carolina for the last few weeks. Can this be true? North Carolina has n...

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The Fraternity of John McCain

Val Strange | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

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Cindy McCain filed by, ignoring me also. But I didn't let her off the hook, either. She eventually, and without looking, spared me her left hand.

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Virginia=Win; North Carolina=Landslide

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

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Unless something gargantuanly unexpected happens, if they call Virginia for Obama, you will know at that moment that he is the next President of the United States.

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Top McCain Advisor Learned Slime Tactics From Jesse Helms

Erik Ose | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

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During the '84 NC Senate race, one of Helms' top aides responsible for implementing a gay-bashing strategy was McCain advisor Charlie Black.

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North Carolina the Hot Spot; Biden Rallies Greensboro with Calls for Unity

Wes Isley | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

Greensboro, NC--Since North Carolina has emerged as a battleground state in the presidential race, it's getting difficult to keep up with which candid...

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Texas Family on Canvassing "Vacation" in Swing State NC

Joan and Elizabeth Cheever | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

JOAN: It began with the news of voter list purging. Ten days ago, the media identified six "swing" states as having "problems" with voter registratio...

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North Carolina's Undervote Problem

New York Times | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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In Florida's "butterfly ballot" debacle of 2000, voters in Palm Beach County were so confused by the odd layout that many appear to have voted for the...

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Early Voting Numbers Climb In N.C., Mostly the Work of Obama Volunteers

Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

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DURHAM, N.C. -- On a drizzly Saturday outside Durham, almost 1300 residents waited for ten to forty-five minutes outside Southwest Elementary School t...

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McCain Campaign Tried Using Assault Hoax to Slime Obama

Erik Ose | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

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According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.

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Keith Olbermann Has A New Worst Person: Robin Hayes (R-NC)

Howie Klein | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

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If any member of Congress personifies a willingness to sell out his constituents' economic interests for the sake of special interests, it is Robin Hayes.

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Political Activism Turning Into Criminal Acts in North Carolina

Tim Ayers | Posted 11.23.2008 | Home

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We as a nation cannot truly progress so long as there exists a critical mass of partisan peoples who feel the need to demonize one another. Blind partisanship that is driven by malice and contempt is a sad state of affairs and potentially dangerous.

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NC Mailer: Dole's Opponent Will Advance "Radical Homosexual Agenda"

Think Progress | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

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The North Carolina Republican State Executive Committee has sent out homophobic mailers targeting Senate candidate Kay Hagan (D), who is challenging S...

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Just When You Thought You Were American -- Conservatives Say Not So Fast

Burns Strider | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

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Palin has decided that you are not a real American, maybe you are even anti-American, if you either don't have the same views as they do or you are from the wrong part of the nation, or both.

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McCain and Palin Inciting Violence in North Carolina

Erik Ose | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

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In the wake of McCain-Palin visits to North Carolina, a string of election season crimes have occurred around the state involving violence, vandalism, and harassment.

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McCain Supporters Heckle Early Voters, Call Them 'Cheaters'

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

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At a polling site in North Carolina there was a group of loud and angry protesters who shouted and mocked the voters as they walked in. Nearly all were white.

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Reporter Assaulted At Palin Rally

The News And Observer | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media

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A Greensboro reporter was knocked to the ground at the Sarah Palin rally Thursday. Greensboro News-Record reporter Joe Killian was attempting to inte...

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Barack Obama's End Game Will Be On The Ground

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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By Stephen C. Rose If Barack Obama becomes president, it will be because of grass roots organization. The people who will make the difference on Nove...

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Students for Change Parade to the Polls on the First Day of Early Voting in North Carolina

Yuna Shin | Posted 11.16.2008 | Home

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One Stop Early Voting started on October 16th in North Carolina with great fanfare. In New Hanover County, which is sandwiched between the Cape Fea...

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Obama's Smart Targeted Web Campaign

Bart Motes | Posted 11.16.2008 | Media

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Websites cannot substitute for the hard work of grassroots campaigning: particularly phone banking and canvassing. But they can augment the work of local organizers and volunteers.

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Four Ways to Civilize and Simplify Debates

Martin Nolan | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Shouldn't a president be concise on issues? Candidates seem to ignore the signals of blinking lights, so let's install an emphatic alarm that sounds somewhere between a fart and a fire engine.

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Cindy McCain headlines "Victory 2008" at NASCAR race

Steve Parker | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

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Hey, guys and gals! Pack extra suds into that cooler and a heavy load of chew when y'all head down to Lowes Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolin...

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Serena: This Fall's Most Dangerous Novel

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

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As unforgettable as a haunting mountain ballad, Serena unfolds like a brilliantly conceived cautionary tale and mediation on the dark corners of unbridled lust to profit at any cost.

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