North Carolina Called For Obama
RALEIGH, N.C. — President-elect Obama won North Carolina on Thursday, a triumph that underscored his political strength as he turned nine states...
RALEIGH, N.C. — President-elect Obama won North Carolina on Thursday, a triumph that underscored his political strength as he turned nine states...
Elana Levin | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Last week one of the Change to Win volunteers was outside a polling place and a woman in line called out her name. "Erin! I'm in line here to vote because of you!"
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
In what was clearly a very difficult portion of his address Monday night in North Carolina, Barack Obama spoke for several minutes on this grandmother...
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
In North Carolina, where voters can register and cast their ballots on the same day during early voting, Obama volunteers have been bringing first-tim...
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- While her husband rallied more than 10,000 people sixty miles away in Raleigh, Michelle Obama swooped into Fayetteville on Wedne...
Time | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
With less than a week of campaigning left, Democrat Barack Obama is holding stable or growing leads over Republican John McCain in Nevada, North Carol...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
We'll have plenty of time to dissect this pig after November 4th, but I wanted to get a head start on some of the most egregious acts of political malpractice I have ever seen at this level of politics in my life.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
Alison Teal | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
The debates are over but the campaign goes on and on... and on. We need it to be over, but there's still so much to be done. And will it even be over when it's over?
Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
The Cape Fear BBQ and Chicken Restaurant. Some powerful and at times ugly interaction today. 12:33 p.m. Sen. Barack Obama entered the barbecue joint ...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign and the RNC are pumping new robocalls into North Carolina that question Barack Obama's patriotism by charging that he and his fell...
Yuna Shin | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home
Wilmington, South Carolina -- Southeastern North Carolina should be McCain's sure bet, but from the looks of rallies being held all across the region ...
Stephanie Anderson-Ladd | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home
"I never thought I'd be so unhappy with the potential of having a woman in the White House. I'm pretty tired of hearing how Palin is supposed to be the embodiment of a modern woman. She doesn't represent me as a mom."
Wes Isley | Posted 07.26.2008 | Home
While Obama staff and volunteer Fellows weren't allowed to speak to me, I found the rest of the crowd eager to share. I wanted to find out why they support Obama and what issues mattered to residents here.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
A new set of polls from the Carolinas show that both of these states could be close this Fall, despite the fact that neither has voted Democratic sinc...
Election Central | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's promise to make a play for North Carolina -- a state that has consistently voted Republican since 1980 -- might just have some potentia...
Reny Monk | Posted 05.17.2008 | Home
"I voted for Jesse Helms and was proud to do it. I voted for Fared Ali... and he's as Black as any man I ever seen... It comes down to if they're gonna do the right thing for the country."
AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The reaction _ or lack of it _ by Indiana and North Carolina voters to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's incendiary comments emphasizes ho...
Lawrence O'Donnell | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15. He could not bring himself to say the words "Hillary will drop out by June 15," but that is clearly what he meant.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media
It was interesting listening to the pundits try to puzzle everythig through as suddenly, somewhere south of midnight, Indiana surged for Obama, leaving the mayor of Gary, Indiana with some serious bragging rights (and giving Keith Olbermann an excuse to cite The Music Man).
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Coming into the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, an emphasis was placed on two questions: Could Barack Obama win over the small town vote and, to...
Al Giordano | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
The media talking heads will ask aloud why Obama can't "close the deal" (in Clinton's own words) and what is numerically a defeat for Clinton will get spun as a Clinton victory.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
INDIANA RESULTS - 99% Reporting Clinton 638,192 51% Obama 615,753 49% NORTH CAROLINA RESULTS - 99% Reporting Obama 889,513 56% Clinton 657,616...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are chasing the elusive white middle class voter in Indiana (as well as North Carolina), and their campaigns are work...
Reny Monk | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home
As I listened to him answer questions, though, all I could think of was those people who leave long, rambling messages on my voice mail, then forget to leave their name and number.
AP | MIKE BAKER and BARBARA RODRIGUEZ | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics