Barack Obama had more offices in Triangle suburbs and towns with a lot of black voters.

A side-by-side comparison of the two lists of campaign offices by the campaigns shows 20 places where Obama had an office and John McCain did not.

The list includes a few suburbs of Raleigh and Durham: Apex, Cary, Chapel Hill, Fuquay-Varina and Clayton.

It also has a handful of cities with significant black populations: Elizabeth City, Lumberton, Morehead City, New Bern, Sanford, Supply and Warsaw.

In addition, Obama had three offices apiece in Charlotte and Raleigh, while McCain had just one in Charlotte and two in Raleigh.

Correction: A second McCain office was not listed in the original version of the post.

After the jump, the list.

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Fred Smith's Clayton home is worth $627,370.

The Republican gubernatorial candidate's business, FSA Homes Inc., was the general contractor for the home, which was built in 2002.

The two-story house on Marcellus Way is about 5,000 square feet. It includes three bedrooms, a basement and a porch.

In January the Johnston County Tax Administration valued the land at $82,890 and the house at $544,480.

Pat McCrory namedropped no fewer than three North Carolina cities in his speech. 

At his kickoff on the steps of the Jamestown public library today, he noted that he grew up in the small town outside Greensboro. 

"It is here in Jamestown where I got my values," he said. "I then moved to Salisbury to Catawba College where I attained my higher education and I got my teaching degree. ... And from Salisbury after college, I moved to Charlotte, and the people of Charlotte allowed me to become a leader." 

Democratic pollster Tom Jensen points out that all three are on Interstate 85, where he so far is polling the best. (You may recall that polling consultant Brad Crone argued a while back that the road is the state's new political lifeline.)

In addition, Salisbury is the home of one of his GOP rivals, Bill Graham.

Just as the Charlotte mayor chose to officially start his campaign in Jamestown, though, Graham went to his childhood hometown of Dunn for his kickoff. Fred Smith, who lives in Clayton, went to the former orphanage in Raleigh, where he grew up.

Bob Orr didn't have a kickoff.