[Impy]

There is no way the 3rd and 5th districts as currently drawn will elect a demonrat.

[THE MODERATE]

I tend to agree with you on the 5th, it would be a big upset if a Democrat won there, the 3rd though has been a long held and poorly kept secret that this is Basnights district if he wants it when Jones retires, Basnight drew that district and many local Republicans have complained he drew it for himself. But if Basnight does not run the GOP may well have an edge. The question there is this a Republican district or a Walter Jones district, I grew up in that district and I tend to think it was the latter.