North Carolina has voted Republican in every Presidential election since 1980 and before that had only gone Democratic twice since LBJ’s 1964 landslide.
In 2004, even though a home state Senator was running as Kerry’s Vice-Presidential running mate, George Bush won the Tarheel State by 12 percentage points.
This year, John McCain barely leads Barack Obama in the polls there:
The race is still close between John McCain and Barack Obama in the traditionally red state of North Carolina. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds McCain ahead 45% to 42% in the Tar Heel State. When “leaners” are included, McCain leads 48% to 45%
When McCain has to worry about holding on to states that should be solidly Republican, the chances that he’ll be able to pull ahead of Obama in the states that will decide the election appear slimmer and slimmer.
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
[...] already talked about North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, Montana and South Dakota, and even [...]