Might I add that I think your point would've been better made using the Triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) than using Charlotte Metro.
Well everybody knows that area is going "Commie Lib." That assertion would not have been very interesting. :)
Another way, and probably a better way, to look at it, is that Bush 2 lagged Bush 1 by 4 percentage points, and in metro Charlotte lagged by 5 points. God, I was close to being wrong! But the good news is that I was not. :)