AOL Users posting a listing to NC-Politics.com

Special Notice - Entering your profiles! 

In order to enter a "Candidate Profile" listing you first need to REGISTER at the site by providing a valid email address and password, THEN an email will be sent to the email that you supplied. You MUST reply to the email to activate your registration.

It has been reported by some AOL users that upon receiving the confirmation email, the "LINK" in the email did not work. It appears that this problem is due to the fact that the AOL email client being used is not allowing "active hyperlinks" within an email, it appears notably with AOL users that use the web-based email interface.

If you have this issue, open a NEW browser window (manually start MS-Explorer by hitting the "E-shaped" icon") or click on "Start" and "Programs" and then "Internet Explorer" ; THEN you must cut & paste the link into the browser's address space, and hit enter. Make sure you cut and paste the ENTIRE LINK, sometimes AOL will cut the link in half and put part of the link on the next line !! This is very important !!

Once you respond to the email you can then enter a Candidate Profile. Immediately!

But...if you had the previous problem..be sure to enter your profile from a fresh (NEW) "Internet Explorer" (or Firefox) window, not an AOL browser window .

IMPORTANT NOTE: When you enter a profile you MUST press the "REGISTER" button at the bottom of the page in order for NC-Politics to SAVE your work. If you forget to press this button,....you will LOSE everything you have entered, and we have no way to retrieve it ! PLEASE, make sure you have hit this button !! Once your profile has been saved, you will know! NC-Politics will change pages automatically after the save, if the page did not change, it did not save !!

We have candidate profiles posted (that are AOL users) that appear to have worked just fine, and then we have a very few reports that some have had problems. We advise that if you are a fairly new AOL user, that you enter your profile "Description" and immediately go to the bottom of the form and hit "Register" thereby establishing your initial profile, then go back and edit it to add the additional data. There are also a set of "Listing Instructions" available for you to read (BELOW) so you can collect the needed information before you attempt to input your profile, it will help you save time.

If you experience any problem, LET US KNOW !
Send us an email: "Listing HELP".
We WILL get back to you...we want you to have your listing!

Candidates are encouraged to get their profiles in soon in order to maximize their potential exposure to the voters, site traffic and visits have started to dramatically grow as we get closer to the election.

How to post a listing to NC-Politics.com

Candidate Listings
..(enter a Candidate Profile) 

FIRST - We ask that only candidates (or their designated representative) enter candidates profiles (for obvious reasons). In order to enter a listing an individual must first register with the site and provide a valid email address, you will receive an email confirmation that you must respond to in order to activate your registration, you can then enter a candidate profile.

Next: Gather together the information that you want to enter. You will be asked the following questions (required data is noted with an "*").

• Title: * - IMPORTANT: This MUST Include the CANDIDATE NAME and the OFFICE they are running for ...ONLY !
  It should look like: George Washington for City Council
  Do not enter anything else, not even the City / County name, that is taken care of elsewhere!
• Description * - This will appear as "Candidate Introduction" at the TOP of your listing. Input a paragraph about the candidate This is your chance to tell voters something about the candidate.
• # Days you want add to run: * - This controls when your "candidate profile ad" will expire / disappear. Here you need to consider if you are running in a primary, or unopposed for the general election. If you are to be in a primary; choose a number of days that ends immediately after the primary, Once you win the primary you will need to respond to the system reminder that your ad is expiring, and continue it until the end of the general election. If you do not win the primary, do nothing, the ad will expire on it's own. Note: we cannot check who won all the primaries across NC, out of respect for the process, please allow your ad to drop if you are eliminated in a primary.
• Candidate Name * - Enter the candidate name as you want it to be known and appear in your candidate profile ad.
• Running for: * - Select the Office you are running for, If it does not show in the dropdown box, choose "other" and send us an email naming the office you are running for, we'll fix that one right up!
• Dist / Seat / Ward: - If you are running for a specific seat/dist/ward, etc. please enter that data here. For instance, if you are running at large: enter "At Large". If this does not make sense for your race, leave it blank.
• Party: * - Select your party, unless you are in a nonpartisan race, in which case choose "N/A". If you are in a party that is not listed choose "other" and send us an email naming the party you are affiliated with.
• Campaign Address: - Enter the address that you want voters (or anybody else) to see. Who knows, maybe they will send a donation !
• Campaign Email: * - Enter the email address where you (the candidate) can be reached. Note: this does not have to be the same as the email that was used to register with the site. If you enter the correct format it will appear as a clickable link.
• Campaign BLOG: - Enter the URL of your BLOG, start with "www." and it will display as a clickable link!
• Other Web site Link: - Enter the URL of your web site, start with "www." and it will display as a clickable link!
• Resident County: Name of the county of residence (optional, makes sense for statewide races)
• Major Issues: Enter a short paragraph (4 line max) detailing the issues that you (your candidate) cares the most about
• Position Statement: - THIS is the major TEXT area!! Enter up to 50 lines about you, your campaign, whatever...this is the place to enter your pitch!
• Occupation: - (optional, only 25 characters)
• Education: - (optional, only 40 characters)
• Birthplace: - (optional, only 40 characters)
• Religion: - (optional, only 25 characters)
• Incumbent: - (optional, Yes or No answer only)

• Navigate to the Candidate Listings section of the NC-Politics site (3rd menu option from the right)
• Login to the site
• Click on the link in the small box on the left that says "New Ad" or the one at the top that says "Add Ad"...then,
• Choose from the drop down box or Navigate to the Region / County / City that contains the race you are entered into.
• Enter your Data (see list above)
• Enter a photo (if you want to display one ) must be 300 x300 pix or smaller and less than 300K in weight.
• Review your ad ! - make corrections / revisions as you wish!

There is a direct link called: "Resister To add a Candidate Profile" in the menu on your LEFT that will take you directly to the regristration process!

Any complaints received from a candidate about "false" listings will be taken seriously, the listing in question will be deleted !

  

Request your BLOG be included in our Blog-roll
..(add or correct a link) 

NC-Politics provides links to other web sites and Blogs to help educate and inform the voters of North Carolina. If you have a Blog or News / Commentary web site about Politics in North Carolina that should be listed, just let us know! Please be sure to tell us the Region that you are Blogging from or the Region that your web site contains news / commentary about, so we may link it on the correct Regional Page.


Click, to go to our LINK REQUEST PAGE to request a link to your Blog or web site.

If you have a BLOG, Campaign web site, or News / Commentary web site about Politics in North Carolina, not only should you be listed on NC-Politics.com, but you should also complet the "round-trip" by placing a link on your site back here! This lets your readers know that you are part of our growing network, and shows you care about politics in our state.

We have already developed the html code for you to cut-and-paste. Check out our custom links [Click Here] .