- Republican Pat McCrory raises $1.5 million in the second half of 2011, buoying his campaign for governor (Dome)
- Iredell County commissioner says he will run in House District 84 (Record & Landmark)
- Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, a Democrat, brags about better fundraising than the Obama campaign (Dome)
- Greensboro News & Record editorial: Let the gubernatorial election begin (N&R)
- N.C. Bar to begin rating judges running for re-election (Dome)
- Democrat Bill Faison, the non-candidate for governor, gives his campaign a personal loan of $500,000 (WRAL-TV)
VIDEO: Scott Keadle, a Republican candidate in the 8th Congressional District GOP primary, needles Obama administration over illegal immigration hotline:
