Saturday, June 16, 2012

Obama campaign appears absent at N.C. Democratic Party convention

Amid all the campaign signs at the state Democratic Party convention Saturday afternoon, one is conspicuously absent: Obama for America.

The only signs touting President Barack Obama in the convention hall are vendors selling buttons and T-shirts. The Obama campaign doesn't appear to have a table, or an organized presence at the event, where more than 1,200 party members are gathered.

A number of Democrats privately note the absence as odd, but the Obama campaign apparently dismisses the notion. "Obama campaign is working. We are talking to voters about moving our economy #forward," said Michael Halle, the general election director for the president's North Carolina campaign, in a tweet from his personal account.

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