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Obama’s full-court NC press

Jason Sandford July 23, 2008

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

The Obama campaign already has at least 60 campaign organizers and staff in the field and is apparently just getting started. At a Tuesday night event in Raleigh, nine field organizers were introduced for Wake, Johnston and Franklin counties alone.
Heading the effort is Marc Farinella, 50, a veteran campaign consultant from Florida who has worked for such North Carolina candidates as U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles and Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, during her 2004 re-election campaign.

The Obama campaign lists 50 events across North Carolina this week. Much of the activity involves voter registration efforts. The campaign takes credit for registering 150,000 new North Carolina voters before the May primary.,/p>
Howard Dean, the national Democratic chairman, will be in Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte on Friday as part of a voter registration drive.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Ken Shields July 29, 2008

Your statement about Obama’s full court press
appears to be trying to suggest ‘surprise’ at the
N&O leading the charge for Obama NC coverage, and
as is typical with 95% of the media outlets, to
include all genre’s, i.e., aural, print, video, and web based, at least in my opinion, this no surprise to me. In fact, based on all of the indications
I have perceived, based on the media’s coverage,and
attitiude, there’s really no need to hold the elections for President, as McCain stands as much
chance, as the proverbial snowball in you know where
of winning. (I hope that you folks will at least treat him when he’s elected like you would other elected officials, and don’t give him preferential treatment because of his ‘race’, or because the Black folks will start crying foul, for ‘picking on a black man).

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