Black Turnout Will Be Crucial for Democrat
(New York Times) — A flood of black voters in North Carolina’s Eighth Congressional District two years ago helped Barack Obamabecome the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry this state since Jimmy Carter and lifted the party’s Congressional challenger, Larry Kissell, to victory. Without Mr. Obama atop the ticket this year, Mr. Kissell and a number of other vulnerable Democrats, mostly in the rural South, face the challenge of reviving the spirit of 2008 for black voters without alienating right-leaning white majorities in their districts.
