Tuesday’s primary election trained the national spotlight on North Carolina to see who would be the Tar Heel Democrats’ presidential preference. Davidson was among the places visited by Associated Press photographers covering the event. Check out the May 6 USA Today lead webpage photo of Mary Jo Clark of Davidson getting a college student registered.
Also see below for a Lake […]
Polls closed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in North Carolina for the 2008 Primary Election. It took national media outlets about one minute to call the state for Barack Obama in the hotly-contested race to pick a Democrat to run for president in November’s General Election.
Davidson paralleled the state and county results: Democrats voting in the town’s two precincts preferred Obama […]
County Commission chair Jennifer Roberts (left) makes her re-election pitch to Kim Hodgson (right) on Main Street in front of Summit Coffee Thursday morning. Budd Berro (center) is a Roberts campaign aide. Ms. Roberts is one of five Democrats on the May 6 primary ballot seeking three at-large county commission seats. For more about […]
Long lines at Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day Tuesday got residents in practice for long lines at North Carolina’s Primary Election Day next Tuesday, May 6. The race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination puts North Carolina in the spotlight. However we urge our registered voters to pick up a sample […]
Been getting calls from Hillary Clinton lately? Noticed all the yard signs and TV ads for political candidates? Well that’s because the primary for North Carolina is Tuesday, May 6. The hot race between Democrats Clinton and Barack Obama means North Carolinians will be showered with affection this week. Seven-year-old Phillip […]
Mel Watt talks to Davidson 5th graders outside the Capitol in February.
U.S. Rep. Mel Watt, whose district includes Davidson, has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. Rep. Watt is among the party’s “superdelegates,” who some observers think could wind up deciding the nomination fight between Sen. Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton. […]
Democrats in Davidson Precincts 127 and 206 will hold precinct meetings on Tuesday, March 11, to elect delegates to the county party convention.
The initial meeting of the “Lake Norman for Barack Obama” group was held Sunday afternoon at Summit Coffee in downtown Davidson. About 45 people of all ages and backgrounds attended the first of many gatherings to help Senator Obama win the presidency this November.
Sam Spencer 4th (left), the Precinct 206 chair, and Budd Berro, the chair in Precinct 127
Davidson Democrats elected new officers in the town’s two voting precincts Tuesday night. The elections came as the party reorganized all 123 Mecklenburg County precincts following a state party ruling invalidating the December vote for county […]
A fascinating list of lectures, meetings, and theater lie ahead in Davidson this week, not to mention – can it really be spring already? – baseball on the Davidson College campus. Local Democrats are busy - holding precinct organizing meetings, hosting a U.S. Senate candidate’s visit and organizing for Obama. The four-town Transportation Task Force […]
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