Is this a rat district ?
Any hope for GOP here ?
Anyone anyone
Torie Torie
antiguv antiguv
Ballance represents District 1, which is about 50% African-American. Gore defeated Bush by 17 points here in 2000, so it appears this seat is safely Democrat.
Unless the Democrats nominate someone like Champ Walker, they'll win it with 60+%.
I don't see any chance of a pickup. This district is a product of partisian 'Rat redistricting. Frank Ballance's likely succesor, as of now, is former Judge G.K. Butterfield, a veteran of eastern Carolina politicking. I don't know a great deal about him. Perhaps there are some Tarheel Freepers who can enlighten us.