by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Another 50 state blog roundup from the good BLueNC folks. There's lots going across these 50 states. So check the flip!
In the meantime, your bloggers at the 50 State Blog Network have been busy. Here's your roundup for this week:

North Carolina
   While the Democratic candidates for governor plan for their live-blog debate at BlueNC, the four candidates for Lt. Governor have participated in live debates in Asheville and Fayetteville (Part 1, Part 2). Three of the four have agreed to a live-blog debate at BlueNC.

Utah
   Obama Ad For Utah

by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Two groups of Caliticians will be hitting Nevada for the weekend to cover the caucuses on Saturday afternoon.  I will be with Todd Beeton of MyDD in Las Vegas; and Brian, Juls and I believe Lucas will be in the Reno area.  In Vegas, we'll be hitting the "closing argument" events from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Friday night (John Edwards actually has a morning event in Vegas that we'll probably miss, and then he leaves Nevada for Oklahoma and Missouri), and we'll make an appearance at one of the at-large precinct caucuses on the Strip on Saturday.  I'll let the NorCal component check in with their plans.

by Chad Shue [courtesy of Blog for America]

Cross-posted here 

I recently attended a “Presidential Candidates Forum” hosted by one of our local Democratic Legislative District organizations (Washington State will conduct precinct caucuses on February 9th).  While the forum featured local surrogates for the actual candidates, the answers to a pre-determined list of questions were required to be from specific policy statements of the candidates themselves and not simply the opinion (or spin) of the surrogate.  The questions ranged from Iran/Iraq, to Immigration, to Healthcare, to Energy/Environment, to restoration of the Constitution. While I went into the forum a Richardson supporter, I left even more convinced than before that we need experience in the oval office. Although there were many good ideas and plans laid out before us at this forum, the one thing that kept running through my mind was the truism, “Actions speak louder than words.” Having served at every level of government, Bill Richardson is the only person running for president this year who has actually produced results in the areas that impact our country the most at this time in history.