Published 10/23/2008
by Domenico Montanaro
at First Read
From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- If the Democrats carry North Carolina this fall, it will be proof of Obama’s ability to bring the nation together, Biden argued this afternoon.
“It will send a very important message to the nation that we are no longer just divided blue and red. We are no longer North and South,” Biden said on the campus of Wake Forest University. “We [will] once again have a president who’s been able to reach out in a general election and unite the country going into his administration.”
Bringing the nation together is critical, the Delaware senator said, because the nation needs to move beyond the “product of this politics of division and diversion,” as evidenced by the McCain campaign’s robo-calls.
“It’s done again to appeal to the strategy of Karl Rove and company that has worked so well over the last eight years for apolitical party, but worked so badly for America,” he said.
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