"Obama is in the White House because of the civil rights movement," explains Rev. William Owens, president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors. "I didn't march one inch for a man to marry a man." In these final weeks of campaigning it's the economy, the Middle East and health care that are shaping the Obama/Romney debates. But there is one highly emotive issue still at play in the key swing state of North Carolina - the president's declaration of support for gay marriage. "He has not done a smart thing and it might cost him the election". Yet journalist Mary Curtis explains that the popular assumption that North Carolina's black population are single-issue voters is insulting. "They try to lump them as one monolith. African Americans are individuals who think". Inspiring them to unite in support of him is now Obama's biggest battle.