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Published: 2012-11-02 10:01:00
Updated: 2012-11-03 09:14:09

Bill Clinton to campaign for Obama in Raleigh Sunday


Former President Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton
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Former President Bill Clinton is planning a stop in Raleigh on Sunday in an effort to help re-elect President Barack Obama.

Clinton initially was scheduled to be in the Triangle on Saturday, but campaign officials said Friday afternoon that a scheduling conflict forced them to move his appearance back a day.

Clinton will appear at the Pullen Park Event Plaza, where doors open at 4 p.m. It wasn't clear when Clinton would speak to supporters.

With the election next Tuesday, the former president is still working to win over North Carolina.

A WRAL News poll released Tuesday found that 50 percent of likely voters would cast their votes for Republican challenger Mitt Romney and 45 percent for Obama.

Both candidates were tied at about 45 percent in an Elon University poll released Monday.

Obama carried the Tar Heel state in 2008, the first Democrat to win the state since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

On Thursday, the Obama campaign also announced that first lady Michelle Obama will visit Charlotte on Monday. Details of the visit have not yet been released.

It's her first visit to Charlotte since the Democratic National Convention was held in North Carolina's largest city in early September.

Vice President Joe Biden's wife, Jill Biden, is also expected to visit campaign offices in Asheville and the Charlotte suburbs on Saturday. The trips were planned for last weekend, but the trip was postponed because of Hurricane Sandy.

President Obama's final campaign schedule was released Thursday morning, and it includes stops in eight battleground states, including Wisconsin, Virginia and Ohio. It does not include North Carolina.


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I think it is funny that while people are bashing former President Clinton for being himself and for campaigning for President Obama that no one addresses the hundred pound elephant in the room: Why aren’t the former President Bushes out there campaigning for Mitt Romney? Because the Republican party would have a collective stroke if the American Public was reminded that Mitt Romney belongs to the party of the Administration that left us with this mess to start with!-CarolinianByChoice

Personally I believe the Bushes don't want to be associated with the past and possibly future political failure known as Mitt, but at least he has the backing of the former republican Secretary of State Colin Powell..wait, that's Obama ;)

mmmm let me get this staight, a liar lying for a liar.....

Wake up AMERICA !!!!!

"I did not have sex with...that woman"

"...Moreover, no one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate."

...but my alternate reality news source told me differently!

Clinton went on national television and lied to everyone in America. Lying in Raleigh will be easy.

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