. >> gideon moore is the chairman at the -- of the mecklenburg republican party, mecklenburg county republican party in mecklenburg county, north carolina. he's talking to us by phone from charlotte, north carolina this morning and information about their operations can be found at mekg.o.p.com. next up, eloise on our line for democrats calling from durham, north carolina. go ahead. >> yes, i would truly like to say that i think everyone is blaming the counter base but the whole idea is the public, people that votes are the ones that are behind times. i faulted obama right from the beginning running through -- followed obama running through the candidacy and being elected president. file like these people don't know anything because they don't really study what is said and done. i have been keeping up with it. news is one of my favorite things and i have keep keeping up with it all this time. i just feel like it's wrong for them not to know and it's for the republicans to tell them what to do. >> ma'am, we will leave it there. gideon moore, tell us about the efforts going on with the republica

folks doing their early voting in mecklenburg county? guest: absolutely. we have had record turnout on the first day there were 15,000 voters. we had 22 early voting locations, there is one stop early voting and that is a great opportunity for mecklenburg county and you don't have to wait until election day, you can vote early. as for the storm, if everyone votes this weekend that will help us to work around rain on tuesday. everyone has saturday, sunday and monday before the rain might hit here. so i would encourage everyone to get out and vote right away. and i don't know that i agree with everything that the caller had to say but i will say that i do support the president because i think he supports all americans and i think he supports all the people here and that's the reason i'm supporting president obama. host: we are talking to the chair of the mecklenburg democratic party. today we're putting the spotlight on north carolina and joining us to talk about what's going on in north carolina from the republican perspective is the chai

folks doing their early voting in mecklenburg county? guest: absolutely. we have had record turnout on the first day there were 15,000 voters. we had 22 early voting leekses there is one stop early voting and that is a great opportunity for mecklenburg county and you don't have to wait until election day, you can vote early. as for the storm, if everyone votes this weekend that will help us to work around rain on tuesday. everyone has saturday, sunday and monday before the rain might hit here. so i would encourage everyone to get out and vote right away. and i don't know that i agree with everything that the caller had to say but i will say that i do support the president because i think he supports all americans and i think he supports all the people here and that's the reason i'm supporting president obama. host: we are talking to the chair of the mecklenburg democratic party. when we come back we'll be talking about the chair of the republican party in mecklenburg . we'll be back in just a few minutes. >> i lie c-span's coverage becau

similar fate is shared by more than 400 other castles and stately homes in the northeastern state of mecklenburg. many are ravaged by woodworm and fungal." . -- fungal the case. the former owners failed to repair the roof. the ornate interiors have been destroyed by rot. often people fail to realize how much money is involved in the upkeep of such buildings. if you want to own a mansion, you have to have a few million at your disposal, but multimillionaires tend to prefer thinkers in spain over mansions in northeastern germany. the hunting lodge was just a great, faceless building in communist times, but it has undergone a miraculous transformation since then. the building used to belong to his family but after german unification, he bought it for a symbolic price. he leased out the land and restore the lodge with the proceeds. he also rents out holiday apartments in large, but it is not a model that can be reproduced everywhere. >> the idea that you could turn all these stately homes into hotels or conference centers is absurd. it only works in certain cases. there are many people committed to

i do believe that our ground game here in mecklenburg county our person to person contact is making thejority of democrats. and i think for the majority we will see they have supported the president yet again when the polls close in november. host: a caller from new york on our line for democrats. go ahead. caller: i simply have a question as a political operative perhaps you have an explanation. i understand how calling is important internally for politicians but what i don't understand is how does that help the voter? how does the polling, the constant polling changes up and down, wouldn't it be better not to have the polling and let the electorate decide on the day of the election? guest: i would say as far as the polling that i watch, i watch public policy polling, i think they do a good job for us in north carolina. and i would say what i said again, the only poll that is matter are the early voting locations. so that's where the people should be and will be heard. the rest of those polls can give us an indicator of which way people might be going. and i think that polling is also

robert mecklenburg says in just three years they've eliminated unnecessary procedures and saved money. >> we've seen well over 10,000 patients in this clinic and their return to work is twice as fast as the old style of back pain care that we delivered before. the patients satisfaction is much, much higher and the cost of delivering case is much less. >> reporter: the software is part of the medical centers war on waste that started more than ten years ago. at the time the medical center was losing money and dr. gary kaplan had just been named c.e.o. >> waste is all those things which add no value for the customer. it's embarrassing frankly because we find most processes 70% to 95% of time that's spent adds no value for the customer. the waste of wait, the waste of movement, the waste of over processing, the waste of excessive inventory. all that is waste and it had no value. >> reporter: kaplan learned that lesson from studying the philosophy behind the world famous toyota production system. it's based on the idea that if waste is rooted out along the assembly line the result is bett

in the last election, he lost charlotte and mecklenburg county. charlotte was the highest tax city in the state and the highest tax city when he left. he took in 19% pay raise. taxes went up. there is no wonder that the people did not voted for him because of some of those things. >> i would like to continue that conversation. i have talked to voters out there who say they are fed up with congress and the state legislature because they do not think you can get anything done. you are not willing to compromise because of partisan politics. can each give me a specific example of somewhere in your years of public life where you have tossed aside partisan politics and gotten something done? >> i helped a city become so dynamic that it even attracted the democratic national convention. it was used as a showcase of a city. one of the reasons is -- we had a lower property tax than winston-salem, drum, greensboro. -- durham, greensboro. the way he uses statistics is extremely misleading. we need to be honest about the budget in north carolina. the next gov

he talked about his wins in the last election he lost both charlotte and mecklenburg county and there are reasons for that. for nine straight years when he was mayor charlotte was the highest taxed city in the state and highest taxed city when he left. he took that 19% pay raise when he entered as mayor and when you look at when he left the unemployment tripled and the debt--and spending and taxes went up. no wonder people did not vote for him. >> moderator: our next question. >> i talked to a lot of voters who said they are fed up with congress and state legislature because they don't think you can get anything done. you are not willing to compromise because of partisan politics. can you each give me an example of somewhere in your years of public life where you have tossed aside partisan politics and actually gotten something done? mccrory: i helped the city become so dynamic that it even attracted the democratic national convention and used as a showcase of a city and one reason is we had a lower property-tax than winston-salem, durrell, greensboro. allow or property tax in rutherf