DURHAM, NC - When Lucille Richmond cast his ballot for Barack Obama three years ago, she, like many African Americans, seized the historic opportunity to help elect the nation's first black president.
But the tail in the county employment security commission last week, the grandmother of 52 - who lost two jobs and food preparation is seeking full-time job - can not collect the desire to support Barack Obama for a second term.
"I do not see what he did,''said Richmond, a Democrat." I'm not even going to waste my time and vote.''
The President will travel to North Carolina today, in an attempt to stem such feelings, as he promotes his bill of jobs. Most ardent supporters of Obama in the black community of Durham are concerned that the decline of enthusiasm among African Americans can prevent him from repeating his razor-thin victory in North Carolina in 2008.
The trip reflects the importance of a critical swing state in the southern re-election campaign. The Tar Heel State is also the national honor of next summer, when the Democrats converge on Charlotte for Obama's nominating convention.
But unless the country begins a faster rise out of a recession that has left enduring more than 14 million Americans unemployed, the location of the Convention can serve as a poignant reminder of 2008, when the Obama campaign has inspired millions of African Americans throughout the South to vote.
County Durham, close to 20 percent of African-Americans are unemployed, higher than the national rate and more than triple the rate of whites here, according to census data.
"We can not be able to generate enthusiasm as we did in 2008,''said William Bell, Mayor of Durham and the first black mayor in North Carolina to publicly support Obama in the last election." The questions on the minds of people the most are the economy and employment. It should be more specific about how it will turn around the economy, specific enough that the man in the street understands why he should vote.

“North Carolina truly is a battleground state,'' Lindsay Siler, the Obama campaign's North Carolina state director, said during an interview in its Raleigh field office last week. “It was a tremendous victory in 2008, but Obama won by only 14000 votes.
Included in this week's itinerary are stops at high schools, community colleges, a military base, and other places and communities that would directly benefit from Obama's $447 jobs plan, said White House officials. Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest

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