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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Barack Obama is opening an office in Fuquay-Varina.

Dome readers outside the Triangle may not appreciate the full meaning of that news, so we'll help explain.

Back when Dome worked on the Metro desk, we covered Fuquay, a town of about 14,000 a 30-minutes drive south of Raleigh. Here are two of the stories we wrote:

* Town leaders, citing Scripture, refuse to allow soccer games to be played on Sunday at local parks.

* The owners of a potbellied pig rescue shelter spar with neighbors over town regulations.

In other words, Fuquay-Varina is about as close to Mayberry as you can get outside of Mount Airy. 

Obama's outreach efforts here are a sign that he is pushing his campaign beyond the urban centers of the Triangle, the Triad and Charlotte.

In total, the Obama campaign now has 40 offices around North Carolina.