Run Democrats Everywhere: North Carolina Edition
"Whoa! Yeah, North Carolina!" It was November 2008, and I remember getting a Facebook message from my friend Emily. We graduated high school five years earlier, and she started campaign work right after college, while I went into teaching. I can say that it was a time when I was still in the process of defining my personal politics, but as a curious twenty-three-year-old, I was drawn to the candidacy of Barack Obama. This was my first post-college presidential election, so it was my first real opportunity to go to my local precinct and cast a vote in person. To be honest, I had no idea about the overall politics of the state aside from the fact that the local teachers' union representative refused to call it a "union" and instead referred to it as a professional organization. That combined with the fact that I had a colleague who expressed concern about Obama being the "HNIC" (head *n-word* in charge), and I naturally assumed that the entire state wou...
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