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I'm wondering whether he will be able to actually perform the core duties of his job in a way that benefits NC citizens, instead of fighting his culture wars, which is what he seemed to be so focused on during his campaign.
It's going to be weird to see a red North Carolina and blue Georgia on the map. Virginia is totally blue right now, too.
I'm not surprised that Roy Cooper won reelection at all. He's perfect for North Carolina, most of our past governors have been moderate Democrats despite the fact that we typically vote Republican in presidential elections.
I tell ya it was just the name. If you don't know anything about a candidate and you hear "Mark Robinson" you know for sure it's a man and it sounds fairly white. He was strategic and did not have his photo in much of his campaign stuff, just those red signs that said "Mark Robinson". I mean, the guy is pretty out there. Some of the stuff he said "half of black Democrats don't realize they are slaves and don't know who their masters are. The other half don't care," - wow. He's much crazier than Dan Forest, but because it was the Lieutenant Governor's race and not the Governor's race it didn't get that much coverage and low-information voters just saw his name. If his name had been Malik Robinson I bet Yvonne Holley would be the winner today. And in fact, she still might come out on top. The race is just in the 1000s difference and there are 99,000 absentee ballots left to count and 40,000 provisional ballots to resolve.
I'd like to think the voters of NC are more sophisticated than that, but deep down in my heart, I know you're 100% right.
It's going to be weird to see a red North Carolina and blue Georgia on the map. Virginia is totally blue right now, too.
I'm not surprised that Roy Cooper won reelection at all. He's perfect for North Carolina, most of our past governors have been moderate Democrats despite the fact that we typically vote Republican in presidential elections.
North Carolina is more of a purple state. Yes it went blue in 2008. But lately Republicans have been winning by small margins as opposed to states like Tennessee, Kentucky or Alabama where the Republican presidential candidate typically wins by 30 points. But I could never understand why Republicans in North Carolina vote for Democratic governors.
North Carolina is more of a purple state. Yes it went blue in 2008. But lately Republicans have been winning by small margins as opposed to states like Tennessee, Kentucky or Alabama where the Republican presidential candidate typically wins by 30 points. But I could never understand why Republicans in North Carolina vote for Democratic governors.
It's a purple state not because of a close to 50/50 split in most of the counties, as that only exists in handful, such as New Hanover. The difference in NC is that the cities are noticeably more Democratic than they are in some of those other states (and I'm thinking of Oklahoma as an example).
We basically have counties like Durham and Orange that cancel out counties like Stokes and Yadkin to list a few examples, with many more rural, Republican counties but more population clustered in the Democratic counties. Most of the growth has been in the fewer Democratic counties but NC's rural counties have remained as Republican or more so than they were decades ago. I'm not sure this divergence is necessarily a good thing. That's how NC seems more like Pennsylvania from a voting standpoint than it does other Southern states.
It's a purple state not because of a close to 50/50 split in most of the counties, as that only exists in handful, such as New Hanover. The difference in NC is that the cities are noticeably more Democratic than they are in some of those other states (and I'm thinking of Oklahoma as an example).
We basically have counties like Durham and Orange that cancel out counties like Stokes and Yadkin to list a few examples, with many more rural, Republican counties but more population clustered in the Democratic counties. Most of the growth has been in the fewer Democratic counties but NC's rural counties have remained as Republican or more so than they were decades ago. I'm not sure this divergence is necessarily a good thing. That's how NC seems more like Pennsylvania from a voting standpoint than it does other Southern states.
Yes, but unlike Virginia, NC’s urban population is slightly less than its huge small town, rural, and exurban population. Unlike blue state Virginia, NC lacks layers of counties in the same Metro that are dense, multiethnic, and affluent. NC has core urban counties that are immediately surrounded by low density to rural red counties. You go outside of Mecklenburg County, and you are essentially in small town or low density areas that are not very cosmopolitan. Until NC suburban counties are much denser, the state will continue to lean slightly red.
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