I live in North Carolina, and it is a battleground state. I see Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers everywhere, and I live in podunk conservative and church on every street corner North Carolina.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A billboard looms over Interstate 40/85 in Alamance County, where George W. Bush carried more than 62 percent of the vote in the 2000 presidential election.
Since 2001, the sign says, 1.8 million American jobs have been lost: "Fed up? Vote Democratic."
Four years after Al Gore (news - web sites) wrote off North Carolina and Bush rolled to victory here, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) is fighting for the state. With North Carolina Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites) on the ticket, Democrats believe they may carry the state in a presidential election for the first time since 1976.
On Friday, Kerry is to make his second visit here since naming Edwards his running mate last month.
In the three weeks after the choice was announced, nearly 11,000 people signed up online in North Carolina asking to volunteer, says Morgan Jackson, state director for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. "For a state like North Carolina, that's just not something that happens overnight."
Republicans say they welcome that kind of attention to North Carolina from the Democrats.
Read my other entry below on where the race stands and you can see that I had predicted that before the this story broke.
read the story here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040818/ap_on_el_pr/fighting_for_nc&cid=694&ncid=1963&sid=96378798
and blog about it here at the only site on the internet that will predict the electoral vote tally accurately
