? Barack Obama drops in on the Democrats’ Vance-Aycock dinner in Asheville, offering praise to party candidates down the ballot.
? Campaigning in Goldsboro, Elizabeth Dole responds to criticism that she has been an absentee senator and touts her record on regional issues such as military bases and tobacco. Kay Hagan repeats the absentee charge during a visit to a nursing home in Saluda. Dole and Hagan restate their opposition to the bailout bill.
? While state Democrats cheer an upswing of support for Obama and Hagan in NC, they fret about Beverly Perdue’s disappointing campaign thus far. At Vance-Aycock, she promises to skin Pat McCrory like Sarah Palin might skin a moose. The New York Times puts the NC race in context, noting that both McCrory and Dino Rossi in Washington are running competitive campaigns against this year’s Democratic grain. McCrory responds to Perdue’s previous criticism that he would favor urban over rural areas.
