Sarah Palin is On Her Way to North Carolina!

North Carolinians are excited by the news that Governor Sarah Palin will be coming to North Carolina for a number of events in the coming weeks.

Palin will be welcomed to the Tar Heel State this coming Tuesday, October 7 at East Carolina University in Greenville. Tickets are already available at the Greenville and Raleigh Victory Offices, and tickets will be made available at all other Victory Offices on Saturday, October 4. Tickets for this event are going to go fast so get yours ASAP!

This rally is going to be every bit as big and exciting as the other Palin rallies we've been seeing in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, where one rally at the Villages drew a crowd of 60,000!

The doors to ECU's Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum open at 4:00 PM on Tuesday. For more information, see the campaign website here.

Following the Greenville rally, Sarah Palin's next appearance in North Carolina will be a private fundraiser in Greensboro on Thursday, October 16. While the event is not public, WXII 12's coverage does include this interesting note:

Palin is also scheduled to make another swing through the Tarheel state leading up to Election Day in November.

Hopefully Governor Palin will make a visit to the western half of North Carolina. We're looking forward to seeing Sarah in person!

New McCain Victory Offices Opened in North Carolina

Goldsboro Victory Office
147 South Center Street
Goldsboro, NC 27530
(573) 647-9016

Laurinburg Victory Office
684 Highway 401 North
Laurinburg, NC 28352
(919) 862-6079

Rocky Mount Victory Office
1826 Sunset Avenue
Rocky Mount, NC 27804
(919) 862-6183

Salisbury Victory Office
100 West Innes Street
Salisbury, NC 28144
(919) 827-5949

For the full list of NC Victory Offices, click here.

McCain Campaign Increases Number of Offices, Staffers in North Carolina

From the News & Observer:

RALEIGH - With Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama scheduled to stump today in Charlotte, the campaign of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain announced plans to ratchet up its efforts in North Carolina.

The McCain campaign said Saturday that it had opened 14 offices in the state and hired 20 staffers -- a number that it said would likely grow to 20 offices and 25 to 30 staffers.

"This is a state that Senator Obama and his campaign have targeted and put extraordinary resources and finances in the state," said Mike DuHaime, the political director for the North Carolina McCain campaign.

President Bush is scheduled to attend a fundraiser in Greensboro on Sept. 30 to raise money for the McCain-Palin ticket.

The event will be held at the Irving Park home of businessman Louis DeJoy and former U.S. ambassador Aldona Wos.

DeJoy, who is state McCain finance chairman, said he expects 350 people to attend the event and predicted it would raise "hundreds of thousands" of dollars.

The McCain campaign has been playing catch-up in North Carolina, which the Obama campaign targeted early. Obama has 31 offices in the state and more than 200 staffers. Obama also has spent at least $2.5 million on TV advertising in the state, far more than McCain. Obama began his TV ad campaign in early summer, and McCain began his during the week of the Republican National Convention.

But despite that effort, the McCain campaign noted that every statewide public opinion poll has shown McCain with either a large or a modest lead in the state.

DuHaime said the intensity of the Republican effort in the state is growing. He said 39,000 Republicans had requested absentee ballots, compared to 18,000 Democrats.

Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, the GOP candidate for governor, said during the conference call that McCain had shown his experienced leadership by warning of the breakdown of Fannie Mae, the troubled lender, and had sought legislation to fix it.

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Neither McCain nor his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has made a public campaign appearance in the state in the general election. DuHaime said he did not know when either would campaign in North Carolina.

I know we'd all love to see John McCain and Sarah Palin visit North Carolina before the election (and I'm certain the turnout for them would be huge) but I can understand them targeting those rust belt swing states like Pennsylvania and Michigan (which they have a good shot of winning, despite those states usually voting for the Democratic nominees).

In the meantime, here's to hoping that Obama continues to waste his resources here to no effect!

National Women's Phone Bank Night

An announcement from the McCain campaign:

NC Women for McCain-Palin,

The final push to November 4th is here. John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin are traveling the country to take their message of reform, prosperity, and peace to the American people. They are doing their part; now it is time for us to do ours.

Please join us this Monday for National Women Phone Bank Night! We will be gathering at phone banks across North Carolina to make phone calls in support of John McCain and Sarah Palin. The campaign has asked the national Women's organization to produce 100,000 calls this week. Come to your Nearest Victory Office this Monday between 5:00pm and 8:30pm to help us reach this important goal.

If you can't make it this Monday, we encourage you to join us next week. From now until Election Day, we will be running Women Phone Banks every Monday evening. If there is not a phone bank near you, there is still plenty you can do from your neighborhood -- please email us at northcarolina@johnmccain.com for more information. Or, you can join us by participating from home using our new Online Phone Bank Tool. In the coming days, we will be launching an online phone bank specific to Women calling Women. We will send the link to that around when it is launched!

See you on Monday!

Martha Jenkins
Dr. Linda Petrou

State Chairs, NC Women for McCain-Palin

John McCain and Barack Obama May Attend NAACP Convention in Charlotte

Rock Hill Herald:

[Event director Lonnie] Randolph said the NAACP is awaiting word on whether the two major presidential nominees, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, will accept invitations to speak. The candidates are expected to respond by Friday.

The convention will be held Oct. 2 to 5. The South Carolina NAACP is holding the event in Charlotte due to its ongoing commercial boycott of South Carolina.

"Super Saturday": Phone Banks Across North Carolina On 9/20

Breaking on JohnMcCain.com:

Volunteers from across North Carolina will be coming together this Saturday, September 20th to participate in "Super Saturday" events. We will have phone banks set up all day at our 9 North Carolina Victory Offices. Our campaign's goal is to reach tens of thousands of undecided North Carolina voters with Senator McCain's message of hope, reform, and prosperity.

John McCain is performing well in North Carolina, but we cannot let down our guard. This Saturday, consider volunteering a few hours of your time to help elect John McCain the next President of the United States.

Victory Offices are located in Asheville, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greensboro/High Point, Greenville, Hickory, Raleigh, Wilmington and Winston-Salem.

VIDEO: Senator McCain Slams Obama Hard On Exaggerations

John McCain and Sarah Palin rallied in Vienna, Ohio today before a turnout of over 7,000 supporters, and McCain decided he wasn't going to let Barack Obama get away with his latest distortions.



For more on Obama's distortions, see the story at Hot Air.