Fall
2008 voting
Your
association's projections
State
election officials report huge increases in new voters in recent
months: about 257,000 have been added since January, roughly 50,000
of them since the May primaries. Of the total, 145,000 voters have
registered as Democrats, 17,000 have registered as Republicans and
about 95,000 voters have registered as unaffiliated. Most of the
unaffiliated voters, election officials say, are young, black voters
registering for the first time.
All totaled, there
are now 5.9 million registered voters in North Carolina and Bob Hall
of the political watchdog group Democracy North Carolina expects
the total to surpass seven million by November.
Raleigh Regional
Association of REALTORS® directors, Government Affairs Committee
members and Leadership Academy students recently participated in
25 candidate interviews to help determine who the association should
endorse. The races RRAR is weighing in on include the following:
NC
House District 33 Incumbent:
Dan Blue (D-Wake)
Challenger:
Paul Terrell (R)
Endorse:
Dan Blue
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House District 41
Incumbent:
Ty Harrell (D-Wake)
Challenger:
Bryan Gossage (R-Apex)
Endorse:
Bryan Gossage
No Endorsement |
NC
House District 35
Incumbent:
Jennifer Weiss (D-Cary)
Challenger:
Eric Weaver (R-Cary)
Endorse:
Eric Weaver |
NC
Sena
te District 15
Incumbent:
Neal Hunt (R-Raleigh)
Challenger:
Chris Mintz (D-Wake)
No Endorsement |
NC
House District 37
Incumbent:
Paul “Skip” Stam (R-Apex)
Challenger:
Ed Ridpath (D-Cary)
Endorse:
Paul Stam |
NC
Senate District 16
Incumbent:
Richard Stevens (R-Cary)
Challenger:
Brian Irving.
Endorse:
Richard Stevens |
NC
House District 40
Incumbent:
Marilyn Avila (R-Wake)
Challenger:
Stan Morse (D-Wake)
No Endorsement |
Wake
County Commissioner District 4
Incumbent:
Kenn Gardner (R-Cary)
Challenger:
Stan Norwalk (D-Cary)
Endorse:
Kenn Gardner |
For
more information regarding elections, visit the state Board of Elections
website at www.sboe.state.nc.us/items.aspx?id=1&s=1. For
NCAR endorsements, visit www.ncrealtor.org and for NAR endorsements,
www.realtor.org.
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