Obama Spending $$$ in North Carolina

Turn on your television, watch popular programming and you are bound to see commercials running for presumptive Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama.  Get used to seeing these commercials as we head towards the fall, the Obama campaign sees North Carolina as a swing state and they are going to make a major push to turn the Tar Heel state "Democratic Blue" this November.

"RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Barack Obama's campaign said Wednesday it has spent more than $2 million so far on general election television ads in North Carolina, a practical sign that the presumptive Democratic nominee is serious about breaking a 32-year electoral vote drought.

A Democrat hasn't won North Carolina's electoral votes since 1976. Save for nationally aired ads during the summer Olympics, Republican John McCain's campaign has not yet run ads in North Carolina television markets.

"It's not that big a stretch for Barack Obama to win North Carolina this year," state campaign director Marc Farinella told reporters in a conference call featuring Gov. Mike Easley. "This is a battleground state and we're going to win it."

USA Today

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  • 9/21/2008 2:35 PM Howard wrote:
    OBAMA = BETRAYAL
    Obama supporters are foolish to think that he will never betray them.
    Obama was a close friend of Pastor Wright for TWENTY YEARS.
    Obama threw Wright under the bus for personal ambition.
    McCain would not betray his country even after 5 years of torture.
    You can put lipstick on a traitor, but he's still a traitor.
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