The general public takes pictures inside the arena where the DNC will take place.
"This state is hurting and we are still retooling from the changeover from a manufacturing to a service economy," Crone says. "North Carolinians need to hear from the president what his plans are for addressing the economy here. They are fiscally conservative, but they are realists, too."
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