Democratic national chairman Howard Dean will be in North Carolina next Friday as part of a national voter registration drive.

Dean, the former Vermont governor and presidential candidate, began the 50-state tour this week in President Bush’s home town of Crawford, Texas, reports Rob Christensen.

Dean is traveling in a bio-diesel bus in an effort to mobiize voters for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and other Democratic candidates.

Dean will be in Raleigh at 9 a.m. on Friday, then in Greensboro at noon, and in Charlotte at 3:30. Details of locations are still being worked out.

Actors Shawn and Marlon Wayans will be visiting North Carolina colleges this weekend on behalf of Barack Obama.

Their mission - to get students registered to vote.

Obama's campaign announced today that the Wayans brothers will be part of a larger effort to get people registered by North Carolina's April 11 deadline.

The actors are scheduled to visit N.C. State, N.C. Central, UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, N.C. A&T, UNC-Greensboro, Winston-Salem State and Wake Forest.

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The Democratic presidential candidate is planning to visit North Carolina this week. We still don't have details on his visit, but we hope to get a chance to ask him some questions about issues of concern to North Carolina voters. We'll try to do the same when Hillary Clinton visits.

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