http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=296224227292

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"Cal Cunningham Triangle Student's Day Date Saturday, February 27, 2010 Time: 12:00pm - 2:30pm Location: Park Shops Room 200 NC State Campus City/Town: Raleigh, NC Description Cal Cunningham a Democrat from Lexington, is a former State Senator and Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves. Cal is running for the United States Senate. Here is your chance to come out, meet him and find out how you can get involved."

I figured since a Senate candidate is making an active effort to reach out to students and get them involved with the campaign, that it was worth bringing attention to it. I realize there is already a general thread about the Senate race, but usually when things like this happen and they get posted about, they get buried and people just end up saying "well I wish I would have heard about this sooner."

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/02/north-carolina-primaries.html

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"Elaine Marshall is the early leader for the Democratic Senate nomination in North Carolina. She's at 29% to 12% for Cal Cunningham, 5% for Kenneth Lewis, and 2% for Marcus Williams. Of course the big leader at this stage is 'undecided' with 51%. You have to see these numbers as good news for both Marshall and Cunningham. It's always good to have a 17 point lead, as the Secretary of State does. And for Cunningham it's good to be polling in double digits without really having spent any money yet. ... The only group we track she doesn't have the lead with is voters under 30, where Cunningham has the advantage right now."

NCSU Students for Cal Cunningham
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=202620806589

I don't expect this thread to last long, or be much discussed, I just wanted to let everyone know since this candidate is making a special effort to reach out to students, and is doing it from NC State's campus.

2/18/2010 3:44:56 PM

It's coming up this Saturday.

As long as I'm bumping this thread up now that the event is almost at hand, here is the latest e-mail from the Cunningham camp.

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" Last night, thanks to the help of a handful of Republicans, the Senate moved forward with a bill focused on getting America back to work. Without their support, this bill would have gone nowhere. If you think Richard Burr was among those brave Republicans who put their constituents before partisan politics last night, you're mistaken. In fact, Richard Burr didn't even take the time to show up. Please e-mail Senator Burr today, and ask him why he skipped work. Thousands of unemployed and underemployed North Carolinians would give anything for a good-paying job, yet Richard Burr won't even bother to show up for his own. Instead, he decided to hold a kick off event for his reelection campaign, where he told supporters that jobs are his number one priority. What Burr doesn't realize is that actions speak louder than words"

It is kind of amusing that Burr is out there campaigning saying he needs to stay in Congress so that he can create jobs, and in so doing is missing a chance to vote on legislation relating to jobs. I think after 16 years in Congress, it is time for bank-run Burr to no longer represent NC in Washington.

2/23/2010 10:21:20 PM

Reminder, today, Saturday at noon at the Park Shops Room 200 NC State Campus if you want to meet candidate Cunningham. No costs to get in, all are welcome and invited. It is a good chance to meet a candidate if you missed Marshall when she was on campus!

2/27/2010 1:41:03 AM

Buy an ad.

2/27/2010 10:37:33 AM

Buy an ad to talk about a political event in the politics section of a message board for a campaign I'm not work for. Yeah I'll do that.

2/27/2010 12:47:35 PM

Cal Cunningham sounds like a bigger douche than Will Langley.

2/27/2010 11:15:41 PM