N.C. Republicans for Obama launched Thursday.
More than 200 registered Republicans from across the state signed onto a petition supporting Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the presidential race this November.
In a conference call with reporters, former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he decided to support Obama in the Rhode Island primary and head up a national Republicans for Obama group out of disappointment with President Bush's foreign and economic policies.
He also said that Obama ran the best campaign.
"His campaign was the best run, best organized, and he was the CEO of that," he said. "All the other campaigns had cost overruns and management shakeups. Not the Obama campaign. And that translates into administration."
Pamella Cash-Roper, an unemployed nurse and lifelong Republican from Pittsboro who appeared at an Obama rally in June, said she supports Obama because of his approach to the economy and health care.
"Voters in North Carolina cannot afford four more years of the same failed Bush economic policies," she said.
The complete list of Republicans for Obama is online here.




Re: N.C. Republicans for Obama kicks off
I think it's possible for someone in an unincorporated area of northeast NC, near the Virginia-NC line, to have a Virginia Beach address though they do not actually live in Virginia Beach. This also happens in northwest NC where a person's address makes them seem to be in Virginia or Tennessee.
But in this case, I think this is just a typo because the only Jacquelyn Cannon Palmer I see on the SBOE is in Caldwell County. She is a Republican, and the name can't be that common.