[right-wingin_It]

The trend appears to be holding through Day# 4 now. Dems rely heavily on in person early voting, and so there may be long term trouble ahead for them in NC. If the tend continues to hold, this deficiency for the Dems in Early In Person Voting (aka In person absentee) relative to Repubs will swamp out any deficiency Repubs have in absentee mail-in votes.

[right-wingin_It]

ping

[9YearLurker]

And Romney won NC by 3% in 2012.

But Trump absolutely needs NC—and everyone has to do what they can to get the Trump vote out there just as well.

[fortheDeclaration]

This is where we see the true effects of the enthusiasm gap, in actual voting.

[rb22982]

These are very promising and black vote is down roughly 25% so far and white indies are up massively with a good m:f ratio

[MUDDOG]

Independents can vote in either primary in NC, so I think there are more conservatives registered as independents here, than in states with closed primaries.

NC tried to institute voter ID and shorten the early voting period, but struck down by a federal court.

Wash. Post article

But New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts have no early voting, and many states have voter ID.

[deport]

Not all early voting locations are open in NC at the present time. Others will open
later on this week. So in effect the per day votes cast likely will become larger.
Example: a county may have only one site open now at the court house but on Oct. 27
they will open others in locations such as malls, etc. I know I’m going once that happens

[revivaljoe]

a lot of republicans left the part and went INDY - so if INDY is way up then they are the old REPUBLICANS that jumped ship - this is a very good sign!

[StAnDeliver]

It's interesting that the two mainstay GOP states that Romney flipped back in 2012 were NC and IN. Hillary doesn't stand a crackhead's chance in hell in IN, so much so that even Politico wrote Bayh's Senate bid obit yesterday.

Which leads me to two things: if Indiana is just simply at 2012 levels: 54-43, then NC is safely red, and then it's a dogfight - one without the 'racial guilt' vote (which I've never understood and not about to start).

However, if Indiana is all the way rebounded to 2004: 59-39, then NC is brick red, and so is OH. And if OH is brick red, it is all possible from there, starting with NH...

[SarahPalin2012]

Remember that Diamond and Silk are from NC.

[mrsmith]

I looked at his blog on these numbers and couldn’t make sense of it LOL!
http://www.oldnorthstatepolitics.com/

These early retuns reports are flummoxing me!

[11th_VA]

NC Unaffiliated Voter Poll shows most are voting Trump and 45% made up their mind before September .

[MNDude]

I thought a different one from and see what showing the Democrats way up. Or my thinking of something different?

[pangaea6]

Well me and the wife are voting tomorrow as unaffiliated and bringing 2 new 18yr old unaffiliated, all voting Trump and R down ticket in wake county NC

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Have a friend who early voted today in the Cary, NC Area (right outside of Raleigh). Said she waited in line 1.5 hours in order to vote. She was told by poll workers that the lines in Raleigh and Apex (another town near Raleigh) the lines were 2 or more hours.

Have no idea how the votes are going - but these early voting lines are unprecedented.