Tuesday Potpourri

Around the campaign trail today:

—Michelle Obama, wife of Barack Obama, makes her first campaign visit to North Carolina. She campaigned in the Charlotte area this morning and will be at Winston-Salem State University this afternoon. She is expected to speak on the economy at the university’s Clarence E. Gaines Center, on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, at 2:30 p.m. This evening, she’ll also hold an event in Raleigh.

—Chambers of Commerce in the Triad area are hosting several candidates for governor at a forum today in Greensboro. Republican Pat McCrory, Libertarian Mike Munger, and Democrats Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore are attending. They will speak separately on their campaign platforms and then take questions. (A previous forum featured the other candidates: Republicans Fred Smith, Bill Graham and Bob Orr, and Democrat Dennis Nielsen.)

—Fred Smith is following up his 100-county barbecue tour with a 10-stop tour of the state featuring country singer Lee Greenwood, who is known for singing “God Bless the U.S.A.“ and who also wrote a campaign song about Smith entitled “From Good to Great.“ (Listen to Greenwood’s anthem to Smith here.) Smith and Greenwood are campaigning in Winterville and Southern Pines today; they will be in Forsyth County on April 23.