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The candidates for governor toured their home turfs Saturday, looking to shore up support and pick up undecided voters.
Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, a Democrat, attended a rally in Goldsboro and made a stop at a sweet potato festival in Snow Hill Saturday morning. Perdue is from New Bern and her support is strong in the east.
Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, a Republican, used a helicopter to stop in Concord, Salisbury, and Yadkinville Saturday morning. He planned to finish his day in his hometown of Jamestown, Mark Johnson reports.
Perdue tried to rally supporters at a rally at a park several hundred feet from a small line of voters waiting to cast a ballot in Goldsboro.
"I have done all i can do across North Carolina to talk to people to listen to people to make known the fact that I've got what it takes to be a great governor for North Carolina," Perdue said to applause. "So when you go into church tomorrow, don't you hesitate one ounce to say to the person sitting beside you in the pew, 'I saw her...I saw the future of North Carolina. I believe in Bev. I believe in this dream. I believe in tomorrow with her leadership.'"
McCrory hit a theme he has sounded in the last week of the campaign — that Perdue's television ads attacking him are untrue.
"She's trying to win this election by not telling the truth," McCrory said in Salisbury.
On Saturday, McCrory spoke in front of the library at Catawba College. He is a graduate of the school.
"Look, I found the library," McCrory joked.
