If you’re into polls, Obama and Clinton are dead even, according to the latest. Read it here: http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2008/02/texas-results.html.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Ralph Nader said Sunday he will run for president as a third-party candidate, criticizing the top White House contenders as too close to big business and pledging to repeat a bid that will “shift the power from the few to the many.”Nader, 73, said most people are disenchanted with the Democratic and [...]

STAT OF THE DAY:
According to the AP, Ralph Nader garnered 9,159 votes as a write-in candidate in Texas in the 2004 presidential election.

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio (AP) – John McCain said Monday that to win the White House he must convince a war-weary country that U.S. policy in Iraq is succeeding. If he can’t, “then I lose. I lose,” the likely Republican nominee said.He quickly backed off that remark.
“Let me not put it that stark,” McCain told reporters [...]

ELON, N.C. – A new poll shows just more than half of North Carolinians approve of how Senator Elizabeth Dole has handled her job.But the Elon University poll shows only 37 percent of those surveyed say they plan to vote for her re-election. About one-quarter of North Carolina adults surveyed say they will vote against [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan and Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bill Graham have made their candidacies official at the State Board of Elections.Graham and Hagan turned in their candidacy forms to the board Monday afternoon.
Hagan is a state senator from Greensboro who will be one of five expected Democratic candidates on the May [...]

BY KIM GENARDO
NBC17 NEWS
NASHVILLE, N.C.– The Democrats have three candidates vying to be North Carolina’s next governor, but you might not always hear about all three. While Lt. Governor Beverly Perdue and State Treasurer Richard Moore capture most of the attention, retired Air Force Colonel Dennis Nielsen said he’s the candidate who best understands your [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. — U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-Lillington) will receive the U.S. Army’s Freedom Team Salute at the American Legion Department of North Carolina’s mid-winter conference Friday.  Etheridge is one of five honorees to receive the award tonight as part of an initiative to honor approximately 17,000 veterans from North Carolina.
Etheridge served in the [...]

A list of candidates who filed late Thursday or Friday with the state Board of Elections for statewide and federal offices, with name, hometown and party (when applicable).
     
FEDERAL
10th Congressional District
Steve Ivester, Hickory, Democrat 
     
COUNCIL OF STATE
Lieutenant Governor
Timothy Cook, Brown Summit, Republican
     
STATEWIDE JUDICIAL
Court of Appeals (Wynn seat)
*Jim Wynn, Cary
      *incumbent