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Pollster: NC might pick Obama in 2012, too
The Raleigh News & Observer ^ | December 6, 2010 | Rob Christensen and Mary Cornatzer

Posted on 12/06/2010 12:23:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Plumberman27

The biggest block of libtard dims in NC are transplants from the north...the ones from Pennsylvania and especially stupid. Not ignorant. Stupid. They whine about how badly they destroyed Penn and then proudly tell us about “the way we used to do it back home” without realizing for an moment how stupid such statements are, not to mention discourteous.

I get especially concerned when they start playing banjos and making pig noises.


41 posted on 12/06/2010 6:16:59 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected
The Raleigh and Durham areas are Obama country. Some of us are working very hard in Wake County to fix that.

What, specifically? And how can I help?

42 posted on 12/06/2010 6:17:50 AM PST by backwoods-engineer ("The Constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the people..." -- Patrick Henry)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Support conservative candidates in your area by volunteering on their campaigns is a start. My children (now 17 and 20) have been going door-to-door in my ‘hood for a couple of election cycles handing out early voting information to registered GOP.


43 posted on 12/06/2010 6:55:41 AM PST by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (Free Iowahawk! (http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2010/11/crisisgate.html))
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To: Plumberman27

Don’t blame North Carolinians, it’s the idiots from Penn, NJ, NY and other liberal strongholds up north who are disgusted with their own states that are moving here and causing trouble.


44 posted on 12/06/2010 8:10:33 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Thermalseeker

Want to know who we really love down here in NC? Chris Christie. Why? Because if he succeeds in turning New Jersey around, it’ll keep the New Jersey people the hell IN New Jersey instead of moving down here.

NC is spotty purple. They’re just now working on eliminating the “blue dog Democrat” crap from down east and have just wrested the legislature out of the Rats’ hands for the first time since not long after Reconstruction. And yet in contested House races that were considered “close,” the Rats went 4-for-5 this election, and the Republican win (Renee Ellmers, NC-2) was a very close thing. That’s partially because of the immense number of transplants and “halfbacks,” and partially because of the dying old rural Democratic traditions. Then when you throw in hard-left liberal enclaves like Asheville, Chapel Hell, and (sadly) my current home of Durham, it makes the state a very purple 50/50 kind of place.

}:-)4


45 posted on 12/06/2010 9:19:01 AM PST by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: backwoods-engineer

Charlotte itself is Obama country but, like most cities, the suburbs in Mecklenburg, Union, Iredell, Gaston, Rowan, and Cabarrus counties are a lot more conservative.

Raleigh’s not *that* left. Big swaths of Wake County are bright red. Pity those of us that live over here west of the airport, though, because Durham County’s just a lost cause. Almost 70% for Obama in 2008, and 75% for the execrable David Price this past November. The unholy convergence of racial politics and a major liberal arts university is too much for common sense to overcome in the Bull City.

}:-)4


46 posted on 12/06/2010 9:23:15 AM PST by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I see this thread has turned into the typical ‘Blame the Yankee’ thread, when NC had plenty of Democrats before us Yankees ever invaded.


47 posted on 12/06/2010 9:29:32 AM PST by JacksonCalhoun (CT Yankee in NC Exile)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As to the topic of the story, the chance of Obama winning NC again, I highly doubt it. He won by 12,000 votes last time against the worst GOP campaign in probably 100 years, in a terrible environment for the GOP.


48 posted on 12/06/2010 9:33:39 AM PST by JacksonCalhoun (CT Yankee in NC Exile)
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“NC had plenty of Democrats before us Yankees ever invaded.”

Indeed. The kind that elected Reagan twice, Three Bushes and Dole over Clinton in ‘96.

Out of curiosity how many states east of the Mississippi have ever had a majority republican registered voting base?


49 posted on 12/06/2010 10:03:54 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: JacksonCalhoun

“the chance of Obama winning NC again, I highly doubt it. He won by 12,000 votes last time”

We can thank the liberal strongholds of Durham, Chapel Hill, and Asheville for that.


50 posted on 12/06/2010 10:06:21 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: LS

I agree with your points.


51 posted on 12/06/2010 11:30:42 AM PST by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PPP also produced a poll of GOP contenders in NC showing Sarah Palin with a 15 point lead over Mitt Romney among MODERATES and also leading the contenders with 27% of the MODERATE vote.

Imho, it doesn’t matter how Palin will do in a hypothetical contest in 2012, but was is more important is how Palin is doing among her potential GOP opponents.


52 posted on 12/06/2010 1:08:36 PM PST by techno
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To: techno

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Gov. Palin is ineluctable.


53 posted on 12/07/2010 5:08:43 AM PST by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the light of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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