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North Carolina is the center of the political universe as the state's demographics shift dramatically
CNN ^ | October 22, 2020 | Dan Mercia

Posted on 10/22/2020 6:17:34 AM PDT by C19fan

News to Know for Oct. 22: Woman shot, man stabbed; Henrico school board… Absentee or early voting? Here is the best way to vote in 2020, according to… CNN logoNorth Carolina is the center of the political universe as the state's demographics shift dramatically

a sign on the side of a building: Signs are placed outside a polling location in Robersonville, North Carolina, on October 15, the first day of early voting in the state.© Gabriella Demczuk for CNN Signs are placed outside a polling location in Robersonville, North Carolina, on October 15, the first day of early voting in the state. Donald Trump has a math problem in North Carolina.

The state the President won by more than 3 percentage points four years ago has continued its gradual political transformation, moving away from the red states to its south and toward its bluer neighbors to the north. The transformation has been propelled by a mix of factors: The state is growing more diverse with Hispanic and Asian immigrants, its cities and suburbs are booming with unbridled growth from northern transplants, older voters from the northeast who are fleeing Trump have retired to the state's coast and the Tar Heel State's once large rural population is shrinking.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: chicomlogic; demographics
older voters from the northeast who are fleeing Trump

WTF??? How is Trump forcing Yankees, I am one, to flee their Northeast Corridor states. Yankees are fleeing the Blue policies of high taxes and high costs.

1 posted on 10/22/2020 6:17:34 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

They leave their states in shambles.

Then move from NY and CA and vote for demonrats elsewhere.
A plague of locusts.


2 posted on 10/22/2020 6:20:33 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: C19fan

yeah, I saw that too! WTF!

how is it “fleeing TRUMP” to move from the northeast to the south?

What kind of twisted liberal logic is that!?!?!?


3 posted on 10/22/2020 6:20:50 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TigerClaws

But the locusts feel good with their
“Everyone is Welcome” signs written in 6 different languages.


4 posted on 10/22/2020 6:22:25 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

The Northeast is mostly DEEP Blue!? Most folks I know are moving to NC to get away from Democrat/Deep Blue States.

OH. CNN reported by MSN.

Nevermind.


5 posted on 10/22/2020 6:22:45 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: C19fan

I know several NY families that relocated to NC. They are all voting for Trump!


6 posted on 10/22/2020 6:23:11 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: TigerClaws

“Then move from NY and CA and vote for demonrats elsewhere.”

Red states need walls. They destroy everywhere they go.


7 posted on 10/22/2020 6:24:54 AM PDT by DOC44 (A)
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To: C19fan
Shifts dramatically? NC went for Osama Obama in ‘08...Mittens in ‘12...and Trump in ‘16.
8 posted on 10/22/2020 6:26:17 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Thanks To Biden Voters Oregon's Now A Battleground State)
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Wish in one hand, crap in the other CNN. Trump’s going to win NC again. So will Tillis.


9 posted on 10/22/2020 6:26:17 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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An Appeals Court just approved North Carolina counting votes for 14 days after the election. Whatever it takes for the democrats to win.


10 posted on 10/22/2020 6:29:45 AM PDT by pawpawrick (I had a life once but my job ate it)
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Aside from the hilarious assertion that snowflakes from the Northeast are fleeing Trump dominance in those ultra-red (proper color usage) Trump-hating states, their idiocy and wishful thinking about North Carolina is reflected in the current voter registration stats as compared to 2018:

D: -86,697
R: +89,394
I: +198,716

Compared to 2016:

D: -133,756
R: +113,276
I: +390,562

Although their reasoning is ludicrous, the article may not be wrong at all as far as the outcome of the 2020 election in North Carolina. This ain’t no “slam dunk” for Trump or Tillis and, like it or not, Cooper is still favored to win again.


11 posted on 10/22/2020 6:33:57 AM PDT by PermaRag (WANTED: millions of patriotic gun owners who are willing to trade bullets for freedom)
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Get ACB seated on the Supreme Court. Then revisit Pennsylvania and North Carolina rulings. It won’t matter what Roberts does after she is seated.


12 posted on 10/22/2020 6:34:34 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: C19fan

My son just moved from CA to NC just last month. Charlotte is some kind of banking headquarters of the US apparently.

Sad to say his is not a Trump vote (but not Biden either)


13 posted on 10/22/2020 6:57:03 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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“... older voters from the northeast who are fleeing Trump...” I was trying to decipher that bizarre sentence as well. All I can come up with is Trump has so taken up residence in the reporters mind that his inner monologues is literally just “Trump, Trump, Trump,” over and over.

Or, the northeasterners are fleeing cities where they might happen to see Trump’s name on a hotel. I am informed there are people who claim they won’t go to downtown Chicago anymore because they can’t stand seeing the sign on the Trump.


14 posted on 10/22/2020 7:19:24 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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I pray that people who don’t want to vote for Trump don’t want to vote for Biden either.


15 posted on 10/22/2020 7:25:02 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: PermaRag
Although their reasoning is ludicrous, the article may not be wrong at all as far as the outcome of the 2020 election in North Carolina. This ain’t no “slam dunk” for Trump or Tillis and, like it or not, Cooper is still favored to win again.

I am shocked by that last part. I know a number of right-leaning voters in NC who don't care for Trump but are ready to crawl over broken glass to vote against Cooper over the lockdowns.

16 posted on 10/22/2020 7:25:11 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: The Pack Knight

The more-optimistic polls show a close race for now, but then they show close races EVERYWHERE now.

That’s better than showing Democrats winning in blowouts, but in the vote fraud-rich environment that 2020 is in swing states like North Carolina — which may be the “swingingest” one of them all right now — what’s the probability of Republicans winning close elections in Democrat-controlled states, especially when they won’t be decided until days or weeks after the fact, until Democrats manufacture all the fraud they need?


17 posted on 10/22/2020 7:36:39 AM PDT by PermaRag (WANTED: millions of patriotic gun owners who are willing to trade bullets for freedom)
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