Obama campaign grows fast in North Carolina

North Carolina TV ads for McCain and Obama. During the last week, the Obama campaign has opened five local offices in North Carolina, including one on Morgan Street in downtown Raleigh on Tuesday night. Two more offices will open later this week, including one Saturday morning in Durham. There is also a statewide Obama headquarters on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh. The state GOP is opening a basement office at its headquarters in Raleigh for the McCain effort. The McCain effort in the state -- called the Victory Committee -- will likely have six regional offices across the state. A statewide telephone poll conducted for the Raleigh-based Civitas Institute shows McCain leading Obama in North Carolina, 43-40 percent. But the difference falls within the poll's margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points. The... [read full story]