WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama promoted an economic plan Saturday he said would create 2.5 million jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges and modernizing schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.
     
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By Josh Green, NBC17 Reporter

DURHAM, N.C. — Ebony Ford was 20 in 2004, plenty old enough to vote. But she didn’t.

“I thought it meant nothing,” she said as she left Durham’s Board of Elections for the first time this week. “This year … it’s a big difference: different senators, different options.”

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By Sergio Quintana, NBC17 Reporter

WAKE COUNTY, N.C. — For the election in 2004, about 700,000 voters in North Carolina casted their ballots at early voting stations.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Senator Joe Biden will return to North Carolina Thursday, Oct. 23, and will hold rallies in the Charlotte area, Winston-Salem and Raleigh.

By Josh Green, NBC17 Reporter

RALEIGH, N.C. — Barbara Everitt spent the day making sure her team at the Board of Elections knew what the game plan was.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won the Technician’s mock election.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain pledged Tuesday night in campaign debate to require the federal government to renegotiate the mortgages of individual homeowners and make them more affordable, a sweeping proposal to help families in the grip of a financial crisis.

By Josh Green

DURHAM, NC – Sioux Watson’s two daughters don’t live in Durham anymore. One lives out of the country. Yet both are still interested in local politics and each plan on voting in the election on Nov. 4.
 
“They haven’t missed an election yet … due to my coming down here diligently and filling out these forms,” Watson said as she sat in the Durham County Board of Elections Office filling out absentee ballot request forms for them. “I think it’s important for mothers and fathers of daughters to get them involved in the political system at an early age. So mine have.”
 
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — John McCain’s campaign is denying a tabloid report that vice president candidate Sarah Palin had an extramarital affair. “It’s a vicious lie,” spokesman Steve Schmidt said.
     
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