- Democrats are leading the fundraising game, but the GOP is closing the gap, reports The Associated Press.
- Recently passed gift ban won?t stunt Charlotte’s campaign to host the Democrats’ convention in 2012.
- Bill Randall, an African-American Republican candidate in the 13th Congressional District, condemns the NAACP?s resolution on racism in the tea party.
- NBC-17 TV in Raleigh reports on the tea party movement going into the November election.
- Republican fundraisers coalesce around GOP’er Cook, but Democrat Williams has a seemingly insurmountable cash-on-hand advantage in N.C. House 6.
- U.S. Sen. Richard Burr has a 10-percentage point lead over Elaine Marshall in a new poll conducted by WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
- Burr ad mocks Marshall fundraising trip.
- The N.C. FreeEnterprise Foundation explores how the partisan numbers fall in the state House leading into the general election.
by Locker Room contributor