Politics News in Raleigh

Fresh off a Hawaiian vacation, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, paid a visit to Raleigh, NC to conduct a town hall meeting with about 2,500 3,000 people.

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Obama will conduct a town hall meeting Tuesday, August 19 at 6:30 pm in the Exposition Center at the NC State Fairgrounds. The focus of the event will be the economy, specifically economic security since the unemployment rate in NC has hit a five year high.  NC is leaning red, but the Obama campaign is devoting a lot of manpower because it is very possible that our state may go blue in November for the first time since 1976.

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From the time between January 2005 and 2008, the rate of voters to register Unaffiliated in Wake County has risen at a larger rate than that of the Democratic or Republican party. But, since the beginning of 2008, both Democratic and Independent registration has exponentially increased when compared to Republicans. Will North Carolina go blue in November?

Under The Dome alerts us that Republican National Committee Chair Mike Duncan will be in town tomorrow for a “roundtable discussion with local Republican leaders at the state GOP headquarters at 2:30 p.m.”