BY Steve Sbraccia 
RALEIGH, N.C. — One day after the bailout bill failed to pass the U.S. House, a number of members of North Carolina’s Congressional delegation were back in their districts, listening to constituent reaction to their votes.
Nine out of 13 members of our delegation voted against the bailout plan. Three of them were Democrats.
Now, the [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. – Attorney General Roy Cooper’s first television ad for his re-election bid highlights the Duke University lacrosse case.
 
A commercial that began running Tuesday in the Triangle shows clips from his news conference last year when he declared three former players innocent of all charges.
The players were falsely accused of raping a woman hired [...]

NEW YORK – Gwen Ifill has a broken ankle, but she’ll still serve as the upcoming vice presidential debate’s moderator.
The veteran PBS newswoman tripped in her Washington area home while walking downstairs Monday, carrying material she was using to prep for the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.
Despite the pain, doctors have given her [...]

The registration deadline is now 10 days away, and the Wake County Board of Elections is busy.

According to an article from BusinessWeek, the Web is engaging voters like never before.

RALEIGH, N.C.  – Republican Rep. Robin Hayes attacks Democratic challenger Larry Kissell for allegedly skirting the law in a blistering new campaign ad.
The ad began running Tuesday.
The five-term incumbent from Concord knocks Kissell for handing in a 2006 campaign report late and revives an earlier claim that the Democrat cheated his workers by not paying [...]

Things got a little testy on Fox and Friends on Monday when Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs suggested that the host might be “making stuff up” about the fallen veteran’s bracelet that his boss displayed during the first presidential debate with John McCain. Conservative talk show hosts have been making a lot of this story, so [...]

“The choice of Sarah Palin does not seem to have helped McCain much among female college students. Females were significantly more likely than their male counterparts to prefer Obama.”

WASHINGTON – If John McCain is elected and wins a second term, there’s as much as a one-in-four chance his vice president will have to finish it. That’s according to an Atlanta actuarial company.
Bragg Associates specializes in individualized estimates of life and health expectancy. The firm calculated the odds of the 72-year-old McCain and 47-year-old [...]