'); } -->
CHARLOTTE -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama plans to visit Charlotte on Monday.
Obama's campaign says the Illinois senator will visit a middle school to discuss his plans to help families that have been hurt by the economic slowdown.
The campaign says the trip is part of a weeklong effort by Obama to campaign in states that President Bush won in 2000 and 2004. Other stops include Georgia, Virginia and Ohio.
Bush won 56 percent of the vote in North Carolina in 2000 and 2004.
Get it all with convenient home delivery of The News & Observer.
The News & Observer is pleased to be able to offer its users the opportunity to make comments and hold conversations online. However, the interactive nature of the internet makes it impracticable for our staff to monitor each and every posting.
Since The News & Observer does not control user submitted statements, we cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted on our website. In addition, we remind anyone interested in making an online comment that responsibility for statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not The News and Observer.
If you find a comment offensive, clicking on the exclamation icon will flag the comment for review by the administrators, we are counting on the good judgment of all our readers to help us.