The Tillis campaign may be releasing the internal as a get-out-the-vote mechanism—if you want to ensure that every Republican and conservative votes, saying that you’re tied is better than saying that you’re up by 1 or down by 1.
Yeah, good point.
Apparently Dems are up in early voting in NC relative to 2010, but I wonder if that’s necessarily great news, since in 2010 the only statewide race was Senator Richard Burr’s re-election, and he trounced his Dem opponent by 13 points. With a Democrat incumbent in a hotly contested race, you’d expect that person to attract a stronger Dem turnout. It’d be huge news if the numbers *were* the same as 2010. Wouldn’t necessarily mean Hagan would win.