President takes health-care battle to battleground states

Sorry for the slow posting today, my computer is acting up and I'm in a real funk over all the stupid crap I'm hearing about health care reform.

(CNN) — President Barack Obama takes his battle for health-care reform to two battleground states Wednesday.

The president will hold a town hall at Broughton High School in Raleigh, North Carolina and another later at a Kroger supermarket in Bristol, Virginia, along the Tennessee border.

When the president leaves the nation's capital for events across the country, the location matters. And North Carolina and Virginia matter.

Both states hold important elections over the next year and a half. A Senate seat held by Republican Richard Burr and the state's governorship are up for grabs next year in North Carolina. In Virginia, Democrats are trying to hold on to the governor's office in this November's election.

Next week, Obama campaigns in Virginia with the Democrats' gubernatorial candidate, Creigh Deeds.