RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Some Democrats may not feel completely at home in Charlotte despite all the Southern hospitality when they gather next week to nominate President Barack Obama for a second term.
Party leaders last year picked North Carolina’s largest city for their convention site in hopes of expanding their foothold in the New South. But the selection has been a source of consternation to some key constituencies.
Gay rights advocates and union groups are expected to protest as the convention gets underway. That’s because North Carolina voters easily passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in May and many view the state as hostile to organized labor.
Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are polling neck and neck in the state after the president scored an upset victory in 2008.
Obama would do a lot better up north where his greatest supporters are! He picked the Carolinas because of the large black population. Let’s hope they show him that decency is more important shared skin color in the South!
I’m from North Carolina and I don’t Obama signs anywhere.
Obama,would be wise to hold his convention in Chicago instead of NC.
How come he didn’t go to California? That’s where his greatest support is – out there with all those rich, greedy movie actors and actresses (nowith some exclusions – there are some smart people out there) Still, it seems as though nothing is real out there – he would have done quite well there.