For the record, the GOP and the Republican Party are the same.

Longtime Republican activist Claudia Rodgers reports that she was turned away from the Raleigh convention center today by security guards.

"Security and reception did not know that GOP and Republican are the same," she wrote in an e-mail. "They turned away attendees to the NCGOP Convention saying that there was no Republican convention today."

GOP, by the way, stands for Grand Old Party.