One doesn't have to look far - just a little more than a century ago, when another historic election took place. A picture of that election, in 1898, provides an understanding of just exactly how monumental of a leap was taken by North Carolinians on November 4, 2008, when Senator Barack Obama became the first African-American to win the nation's presidency.
North Carolina voters favored Obama, albeit by a very narrow margin - approving him not only as America's first black president, but also as the first Democrat to take North Carolina's presidential vote since 1976. But how will the election of 2008 impact the quest for transparency?
... MOREReaders were quick to let us know about memorable omissions from the Capitol Monitor’s “Political Slogans, Parts One & Two” series. Here are just a few of the more colorful additions that we’ve received.
... MOREAs with every election year, political slogans whirl about the airways, boggling the imagination this campaign season. Newspaper, radio, and television ads, bumper stickers, campaign flyers, pamphlets, yards signs, and buttons assault the voters at every turn - and their associated political campaigns aren't always that easily transparent. In Part One of our campaign slogans series, the Capitol Monitor will challenge you to match some North Carolina political slogans that have survived history with their associated political campaigns.
... MOREAmid grumblings of potential wrongdoing by the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) during the 2008 campaign season, the Capitol Monitor sought to discover just how the group was operating in North Carolina. ACORN didn’t make it easy.
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