First, read this.

I was a volunteer at the Michelle Obama event in Raleigh, NC yesterday, and while I could give you a boring rundown, I thought I'd share a much more inspiring story instead.

This is a semi-follow up diary to my report yesterday on the official opening of the Obama Raleigh HQ yesterday. Below you'll find some pics and more thoughts on my experiences as a campaign volunteer.

Hey y'all. I'm liveblogging from Obama HQ here in Raleigh, NC. I'm about to hit the streets to do voter reg, but I have a few minutes to bang out a quick summary of the official Obama Raleigh Office opening.

Blogging from Obama HQ here in Raleigh where the state of North Carolina just gave a warm welcome to Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle.

Today was a horrible day weather-wise in Raleigh. Cold. Wet. Rainy. Just ugly outside all day long. I spent most of the day at NCSU registering students and going to meetings to get the campus organized for the final push before the deadline on April 11th.

I wanted to riff off of discocarp's excellent diary because it's about to fall off the rec list and we should keep this conversation going.

Another day, another amazing Obama volunteer experience... Pardon the brevity of the diary, but I'm tired and need to head to bed soon to recharge for another day in Obama country a.k.a. North Carolina

I just came home from yet another exciting day for Obama here in North Carolina. My day started at the newly opened Obama office in downtown Raleigh. There I met a number of amazing Obama campaign staffers who have spent the last several weeks campaigning their collective asses off for Obama in Iowa, South Carolina, Colorado, California, Texas, Ohio and now North Carolina. Today we spent time researching local colleges and doing voter registration around the area. More below the fold.

Consider this an open letter to all remaining undecided superdelegates...

I posted a week or two ago that it was time to get away from the computer and out in the field to help Obama get elected. Today I'm proud to say I did that. At 9:45 this morning I went to the campus of St. Augustine in downtown Raleigh to participate in a voter registration drive along with 20 other Obama volunteers.

While you've probably been under a rock if you haven't heard about the "writer's strike" here at kos, I wanted to throw my two cents in and share an experience I had this weekend hanging out with a room full of Clinton supporters for a few hours. This latest temper tantrum might be the most asinine, laughable thing I've seen yet from Clinton supporters during the nomination contest. More below the fold...

So there's some speculation out there about how Obama has lost the Republican vote to Hillary Clinton over the last several contests. I have a theory on this...

The race shifted on Tuesday night. Hillary Clinton passed an important test and has reasserted herself in this race. Now it's nine weeks until I get my opportunity to vote, and it's going to be a battle royale here in North Carolina. I'm invested: emotionally and financially I'm committed to Barack Obama.

Ok, so tonight didn't quite go the way I would have envisioned, but I'm excited as hell. I live in North Carolina and there is going to be a full bore, all out campaign here. Woo!

So I'm too antsy to sleep. Thought I'd share another North Carolina grassroots anecdote for any of you late nighters that want a bit of good news in a non-March 4th state.

Disheartening pre-election polls, the beginning of the Rezko trials, "Goolsbee Gate"... Yes, it's ugly out there today, but for a number of reasons I'm quietly confident about Obama's prospects tomorrow and in the race to win the nomination.

I have to admit that I share a fetish with Kos: the ground game. I get a genuine stir in my bones when I read stories like these. There's something incredibly American about organizing and getting involved with your local party, and in a nation of 300 million people, it is the lifeblood of democracy. And on a more practical note, it's how we're going to get more and better Democrats elected at all levels of government: federal, state and local.