Just spent four hours at Dem HQ in NC. YEEHAWWWWWW!!!!!!!

[blm]

It was GREAT folks. We had Republicans and moderate Dems coming out of the woodwork for yard signs.

A lady came by with thousands of Christians for Kerry and People of Faith for Kerry bumperstickers and buttons. They started going out the door immediately as soon as she opened the boxes. A preacher came by for yard signs.

Before I left we had put together hundreds more signs. The union guys were coming in by the droves.

We're TAKING this state, folks.

[madmax]

1. What state??

[Melodybe]

2. North Carolina baby!

[madmax]

4. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee thanks!! n/t

[Sequoia]

13. What city?

[blm]

22. The very Republican Charlotte area.

.

[CrowNotAngelGRL]

53. Awesome

NC is my birth state. :D I'm now in Tennessee.

[Lex]

3. It's in her thread title: NC.

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Way to go BLM!!!!!

[madmax]

5. Mercy... I'm burnt out. n/t

[sandnsea]

6. that is awesome

Oh man, I had no idea you were from NC, that makes all your efforts even that much more powerful. You were really swimming upstream the last year, weren't you!! This is terrific news, really terrific. Thanks so much!!!

[blm]

25. Last year I was in SC.

We moved in June.

[sandnsea]

32. Well keep swimming!

You'll end up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue before you're done!

[Nite Owl]

7. Did that ever put a grin on

my face. Thanks for the news.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

8. Damn, that's a great shot in the arm!!!!!

I've been seeing more and more Kerry/Edwards signs in town too!

[wryter2000]

9. Yahoooo!

I can't stop grinning. You go, NC :bounce:

[tmooses]

10. That's Great!!!!

I'm on my out to work at my local Demo Hdqtrs here in Oregon.

[tomfodw]

11. Anyone taking Bowles signs?

If Kerry can win North Carolina, it's over. Piss on the dogs and call in the fire. Rent that moving van with the "Crawford Texas Here I Come" sign on it.

But almost as important, if Kerry could win in North Carolina, that would give hope that Erskine Bowles could hold on to Edwards's Senate seat. Although Kerry in the White House is important, Kerry in the White House with a Democratic majority in the Senate is even better.

[blm]

27. Bowles' signs were huge movers today, too.

I'll predict we're taking BOTH senate seats, NC and SC.

[HFishbine]

28. The sense I get

The Bowles campaign is humming along, but the grassroots effort is behind Kerry. Bowles probably wins even without a Kerry victory, but if Kerry wins, there's no way in heck that Burr beats Bowles.

[qwlauren35]

38. Here in Greensboro...

the Bowles folks are QUITE busy. And most of the Dems I come across are quite adamant that the Bowles race is as critical as the Kerry race, here in NC.

In some of my activities, I've even had people say "DON'T FORGET BOWLES!"

I think he's getting the word out; I think his name is getting out there.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

12. Seriously blm? I am worried sick about Pa.

The effort they are making there is intimidating for lack of a better word. They are leaning heavily on the Christian pro-lifers and the swift vet believing robot patriots there.
If you say NC could turn then great, but states like Pa and WI. are giving me angina.

[bread_and_roses]

19. Southern Tier NY working in PA for months

We've been hitting Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Allentown doing voter Reg, will be doing door-to-door persuasion too. Part of the nation-wide effort, so I'm sure it's happening in other parts of the State too. I'm optimistic.

[AlinPA]

26. Me too. I live in W. PA east of Pgh; TV is loaded with swift boat ads and

Bush* ads & pro-Bush* talk radio is going full blast on every station >10000 watts. Local newspaper headlines are twisted towards Bush*. I'm working on a local election and Dems are fired up; we have to win this on the ground and not look for help from Bush*'s media.

[Sequoia]

14. My home state! Praise Jesus!

Although the Golden State is my new home, I will always care about NC and what goes on there. Western NC were they got all those floods and destruction, wow! If Kerry/Edwards gets NC I'm going to explode with joy!

[callous taoboy]

15. Gettim' blm!

n/t

[DemoTex]

16. Great news, blm.

I'm starting to see lots of Kerry stickers here in Transylvania county.

[StlMo]

17. That's damn good news, blm!

:dem:

[flpoljunkie]

18. Fantastic! The tide is turning. JK put a spring in the step of all Dems

last night with his commanding performance.

Thanks for this first hand report!

[bread_and_roses]

20. Great news! great work!

Secret hope for landslide here, thanks for the good news.

[cheshire]

21. I think our prayers are being answered. Hallelujah and Amen

[Renew Deal]

23. HFishbine is from NC.

Do you know him?

[HFishbine]

30. Hey!

That's FISHBINE!

No. We don't know each other. We've had quite an advesarial relationship here on DU, but I'd damn sure like to buy BLM a beer or two now.

[Renew Deal]

33. lol

Sorry about that. I couldn't remember exactly.

[blm]

34. heh...you wouldn't have REALLY ever wanted me to back down one inch...

right?

;))))))))))))))

[HFishbine]

35. Naw

Because then I would have had to. Glad we duked it out, just look where it's gotten us.

[HFishbine]

24. Yes we are!

Gonna win North Carolina. You keep on keeping on in the Queen city BLM, there's plenty of effort underway in Greensboro too. We're gonna do it!

[txindy]

29. Excellent!

That is really exciting news.

Any particular comments about the debate that you were told or overheard? Curious about how it went over with Republicans there, especially those who have identified themselves as such while asking for K/E yard signs and stickers! That is too cool.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

31. Everybody got to see what you and I KNEW about our guy last night

:hi:

[JohnKleeb]

39. you two and the others who have always liked Kerry

should be able to say booyah in all the one naysayers faces but then again, I am sure they realize that y'all was right and more importantly that Kerry kicks ass.

[AP]

43. For the first time last night I wondered if Edwards would be able to match

Kerry's performance.

[Cha]

47. Edwards will do Great against

dick face..I can't wait!

Thanks for Kickin' Ass down there in Charlotte, North Carolina, blm!:7

[blm]

49. Edwards will prosecute the corporate crook.

I fully believe that he was intended specifically for that role.

As long as he has his facts straight and his homework on Cheney done, I believe he will make Cheney steamed.

[carolinayellowdog]

36. Drove through northeast NC yesterday and it's Kerry country

Hey,

Previously I've noticed a strong preponderance of Kerry signs in Stokes and Guilford counties. Yesterday I drove from my home in Warren County down the Roanoke valley and back up towards Hampton Roads, and all over northeast NC there were plenty more Kerry signs than * signs.

Edwards can win it for us in next week's debate!

CYD

[qwlauren35]

37. Thanks for that!

I'm ordering yard signs tonight. I think I'll bump up my order. Coming out of the woodwork, you say!

I say AMEN!

Lauren Foster
Greensboro, NC

[blm]

41. You'll be happy to hear

that also during that time there were 5 African-Americans who stopped in to REGISTER, all in their late twenties - early thirties, 3 women, 2 men. I thought of your post from yesterday. I feel a historic shift coming in November.

[JohnKleeb]

40. Thats awesome stuff

Can you say NC going Kerry-Edwards? I think Virginia could, really me and a friend were driving through the more republican part of Fairfax County yesterday and we saw all kinds of Kerry stickers.

[blm]

42. There are alot of retired intel there...they don't trust Bush at all.

Retired military, too.

[KoKo]

44. WHOOO HOOOO, BLM! Great News! "Christians for Kerry...OMG" I wan't

one of those!

It's looking good here in Wake County (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) Mason-Dixon Poll had Wake county for Kerry...but we were the most liberal in the poll..with Winston-Salem next. If you're making inroads into Charlotte then that's really wonderful news.

:thumbsup:

[frank frankly]

45. way to go, blm.

honestly, way to be Awesome. great work.

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[frank frankly]

46. back to Page One.

:kick:

[oddtext]

48. You should see Asheville

100s of Kerry stickers, No War stickers, Nothing accomplished, Attack Iraq . . . No! etc etc. NARY at * sticker to be seen on most days. you'll see 'em if you look VERY carefully, otherwise, ZIP for jackass junior here.

[luaneryder]

50. Raleigh; moving back here next month

More and more KE yard signs and bumper stickers cropping up. A wait person at 42nd Street told me she had her KE yard sign out and she lives next door to the Repub HQ!

[GainesT1958]

51. Good grief, BLM--that's incredible!

You did yeoperson's work at HQ there--and isn't it gratifying to see how much all that hard work is paying off?!:D

The enthusiasm was high for Kerry around here--and, like you, I've seen it from people you'd never expect to vote for him. However, I'd have to say that, after last night, the dam has burst on Dub! You don't just talk with people about how Kerry is the "better man for the job", they're starting to say that there was only one guy who looked like a president on the stage last night, and that was the tall guy from Massachusetts!:7

More Kerry and Kerry/Edwards stickers--and now, at last, yard signs!--than ever around here; usually see at least 2 for every one for Dub--and they're still running even in heavily-Repub areas of the county. I was upset at seeing a "Bush" sticker on the back of a Nissan Maxima today--until I looked again and saw it was one of those "Bush/Satan '04" stickers!:D

I really do believe we're going to confound the pollsters and take this state; and I'm more confident than ever about that today. I think Kerry performed a seismic shift several times that of the ones triggering Mt. Saint Helens last night, and becuase of that, today the campaign is a completely new ballgame. Can't see Dub coming back from the cliff he drove off of in Miami--once again, this is John Kerry's election to lose--and he AIN'T gonna lose it!:bounce:

And neither is Erskine--probably by a wider margin than we're expecting!:bounce:

:kick:

B-)

[wishlist]

52. In my almost 30 years in Asheville, I've never seen so many yard signs

In my neighborhood there are 20 for Kerry now vs only 2 for shrub. Betcha lots more signs and stickers appear in the next two weeks!