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Welcome to Trail Mix, a place for bite-sized political morsels—and maybe a scoop or two. The 2008 election year will be a big one for North Carolina voters. We’ll be electing a new governor and a new lieutenant governor—two races that are crowded with candidates but have no single frontrunner. Elizabeth Dole, the senior U.S. senator from North Carolina, faces a tough re-election bid. John Edwards, the South Carolina-born North Carolinian, is making his second run for president. And at the state level, the city of Winston-Salem could play a larger role than usual in 2008: two candidates are trying to become the first Winston-Salem

(correction: residents) in over 100 years to be elected to an executive-branch position in state government.

For the next 11 months, I’ll cover all of these campaigns and more. From you, I want to know what I’m getting right and what I’m getting wrong. me an e-mail or, even better, post a comment here.

Once again: welcome. Let’s hit the trail.