North Carolina may be better than we think

[dsc]

My aunt is a reporter for a newspaper in the eastern part of North Carolina. According to her tobacco farmers are pissed at Bush. If tobacco farmers aren't voting for the man then he is in huge trouble. Evidently they are pissed enough that they are supporting a Democrat for Senate. So this could be very good news.

[Leprechan29]

1. North Carolina may be becoming more moderate daily

While the majority of the state would likely not be caught dead voting for Kerry, people are beginning to realize that (at least on a local level) democratic or mixed governments work well. With the Rep/Dem coalition in the State House(if it is the Senate, then I apologize), along with the co-speakership between Morgan and Black, people around NC are coming to the conclusion that effective governments are ones where parties are willing to comprimise with one another.

The lack of economic (especially job) growth in the state is also hindering Republican candidates who had previously run on the basis of a strong manufacturing sector. With the sector weakened, I would think that the state is turning more and more away from the Republican party, a trend that is emerging in other manufacturing states (just look at Ohio)

(Edit: Side note - I'm a native North Carolinian and a current resident, and though I am not a fan of the Republican prominence in the state, I see the co-speakership and resulting progress as a huge step forward)

[dsc]

2. Ohio is being run into the ground

yet I don't think Fingerhut has a ghost of a shot at Voinovich and we won't get either house in the Assembly. Kerry might pull it out here but even that is at best iffy. Our party here is so bad we can't take advantage of the worst run state in the midwest, if not the entire nation. I am interviewing in NC next week for teaching jobs as I have all but given up on Ohio in that regard.

[Darkamber]

3. Kerry is starting to campaign in NC too...

I saw an article that Kerry is starting to setting up campaign staff in NC.

North Carolina is not one of the so-called battleground states. But President Bush flew into Charlotte in April and Winston-Salem in November, and Vice President Dick Cheney was in Winston-Salem in May.

Kerry has yet to set foot here. But a fund-raiser for Kerry is scheduled for June 18 at the Chapel Hill home of Jane Brown and James Protzman. There were also a number of Kerry house parties across the state last month.

http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1311670p-7434129c.html

Could be more signs of activity in NC.

[JI7]

4. Polls show Kerry doing not too bad against Bush, with Edwards, tied

the polls show if it's only bush and kerry , bush is a head by a little but bush still has under 50 percent. that says a lot considering kerry is a northeasterner . when you add edwards to the ticket it becomes a tie.

[DaveSZ]

5. With Edwards the state is in play

:)