VIDEO: Obama touts manufacturing in North Carolina, as Sen. Kay Hagan is absent By Steve Doty FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedinEmailPrint January 15, 2014 5:00 am FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedinEmailPrint TagsBarack ObamaKay HaganLocal NewsManufacturingNorth CarolinaSteve Doty Related Content Senate Public blames GOP more than Democrats for shutdown ahead of SNAP funding deadline News Frustrations spill over on Capitol Hill with no pay, trash pickup, or no interns World Xi and Trump embrace tepid, delicate friendship Defense Trump’s middling effort to strengthen the military Daily on Defense Democrats gripe they’re being left in the dark over legal basis for drug boat strikes