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North Carolina DNC Delegates Front and Center

Denise Adams
Leoneda Inge
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Tonight in Charlotte is the night President Obama accepts his nomination for a second term in the White House.  State Senator Floyd McKissick of Durham attended his first Democratic National Convention in 1988.  He says this convention is the most exciting and the most important.

McKissick continues, " Well I think everybody understands with Obama’s presidency that there are a lot of issues that are significantly at risk on this occasion.  If Republican control is captured at our national level and also in Congress perhaps here at the state it can result in decades of progress that we’ve made basically being defeated."

Tonight – Lt. Governor Walter Dalton, the state Democratic candidate for governor – is one of several speakers on tap before Mr. Obama takes the stage.

Leoneda Inge is WUNC’s race and southern culture reporter, the first public radio journalist in the South to hold such a position. She also is co-host of the podcast Tested and host of the special podcast series, PAULI. Leoneda is the recipient of numerous awards from AP, RTDNA and NABJ. She’s been a reporting fellow in Berlin and Tokyo. You can follow her on Twitter @LeonedaInge.
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