Posted on 08/09/2016 1:54:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
CHARLOTTE—The technology workers, accountants and bankers who packed a steamy roof deck for a young professionals’ happy hour here recently shared one thing in common. “People aren’t from here,” said Ryan Apt, a 31-year-old salesman from Oklahoma who moved here last year with his Connecticut-born wife.
So many new residents have streamed into North Carolina in recent years that its electorate is experiencing one of the most dramatic churn rates of any state in the country. A Wall Street Journal analysis of census data shows about 1 in 10 people eligible to cast ballots this fall didn’t live in the state as recently as 2008. Only Florida, California and Texas have drawn more new adult citizens in recent years.
Like Colorado, Virginia and other magnets for outsiders, North Carolina is a battleground state where newcomers could help decide the 2016 presidential election. The Tar Heel state was reliably Republican terrain until Barack Obama in 2008 became the first Democrat to win there in 32 years. Mitt Romney snatched it back for Republicans in 2012, making it perhaps the most closely divided swing state in the country this year.
Polls show Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump running essentially even in North Carolina, a state Mr. Trump would need to preserve his most plausible path to the White House. Mr. Trump went to the retiree mecca and beach town of Wilmington on Tuesday to rally support for his economic plan, and to Fayetteville, home of the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg, the nation’s biggest military installation.
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Wsj is a Murdoch Lib newsletter / cheap labor express rag now.
Rupert Commie kids destroyed it.
By month the writer slices up all the lib med push poll Ridiculous results .
The polls for NC senate and Gov races had the Dem ahead naturally .
PPP ,CNN ,Fox, QU, CBS , NBC - Wsj all just spit out garbage polls week after week in 2914
No Apologizes from anyone of them when the final results were way different and very Pro GOP .
It's was all Dem media Psych-ops .
Darn Massholes:)
Yeah a lot of Germans living in Greenville due to BMW plant.
Clemson girl!
Colorado was once a red state….1990’s Trump will be luck got flooded with people from California..left in 2000…
Trump will have to have a lucky streak to win the electoral college..
A lot of very, very stupid people moving in to North Carolina.
ff
I don’t know how NC managed to elect a Repub governor
They finally got ahead of the FRAUD.
NB roll of Repubs going DOWN. Inde’s going UP. YEAH!
Oh man, you moved from Sunnyvale to NC? I feel sorry for you. Yes, the weather sucks big time in NC...
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