? Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore campaign at the same event in Robeson County, historically the seventh-largest county in Democratic primary turnout. Perdue touts her positive campaign while Moore emphasizes that a fifth of primary voters has yet to settle on a candidate.
? Perdue touts her connections to Western North Carolina and stresses education and health care issues at an earlier stop in Rocky Mount. Moore goes after Perdue on gun control.
? Pat McCrory responds to Fred Smith’s ads challenging his fiscal record by linking Smith to big state budgets and highway overspending.
? At the Republican candidates’ final debate, held in Asheville, Smith and McCrory exchange some sharp words of “praise” while Graham argues for new faces in state politics and Orr notes his background in and knowledge of Western NC. News 14 Carolina summarizes the themes of each GOP campaign.
? WWAY-TV in Wilmington gives an overview of all the candidates’ positions on education, including mention of teacher pay, school construction, lottery funds, vocational education, parental choice, and testing.
? WUNC-FM’s Laura Leslie produces audio profiles of each major gubernatorial candidate: Fred Smith, Beverly Perdue, Bill Graham, Pat McCrory, and Richard Moore. Bob Orr will be posted next.
? Southern Political Report checks in on the Democratic gubernatorial primary, making comparisons to the Obama-Clinton race and observing a late break in Perdue’s favor.