The head of the national Republican Party says he's not taking North Carolina for granted.
In Raleigh as part of a voter registration swing, Republican National Committee chairman Robert "Mike" Duncan said that the state will be "in the Republican column" in November, but he said the party will devote significant resources to get-out-the-vote efforts.
"We can't take anything for granted," he said.
Duncan said that the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had an early organizational advantage leftover from the primary effort against Hillary Clinton, but he said that the Republican National Committee will be building up its voter-registration efforts to back John McCain.
Still, he remained optimistic that McCain will carry the state.
Duncan noted that the campaign of Obama has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on advertising in North Carolina but still lags behind McCain in the polls here.
He also said that U.S. Rep. Robin Hayes will win re-election, arguing that the Concord Republican's constituents know he is a hard-worker in Washington.
Duncan added that he and Hayes live in the same apartment building in Washington, D.C., and he frequently sees Hayes coming home after working late.
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