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Posted on 07/17/2026 9:37:21 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Gov. Roy Cooper leads Michael Whatley by four percentage points in a new poll from Public Policy Polling, which shows a race that remains competitive as voters begin to tune into the campaign.
While national attention has increasingly turned to high-profile Senate races in Maine and Texas, the newly released poll suggests that Whatley, the former RNC and NC GOP chairman, still has an opportunity to contest a race that forecasters say favors Cooper.
The PPP poll, released on Monday, surveyed 759 North Carolina voters earlier this month and found Cooper leading the race by 48% to 44%, with a margin of error of +/-3.6%. That’s a slight increase in support for Cooper from PPP’s March survey, which showed him leading by 47% to 44%.
Both surveys are relative outliers, as most polls this year have shown Cooper with a substantial lead over Whatley — often in the double digits, a rarity in North Carolina’s perennially razor-thin statewide elections.
Pollsters and other political observers have said they believe the race is likely to tighten by November as voters flock to their party’s respective candidate.
“We tend to see voters go into their respective political corners by the time we reach the fall,” said Catawba College politics professor Michael Bitzer in an interview last month.
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My wife hasn’t started making phone calls yet.
Whatley just might pull this out.
Cooper ahead? What the hell is wrong with NC voters?!
Virginia has fallen, and the infection seems to be spreading down the East Coast.
I’m longing for Cooper to be a has-been.
I’m in SC, and the local conservative radio hosts are talking about it down here. I don’t think it will happen this cycle, but if companies keep moving here and liberal maggots come here to take jobs, it could make this state vulnerable.
The funny thing is these people come here for the jobs and want to change it to become the crap hole they move from...don’t understand that logic.
Cooper was not particularly popular by time he left office.. he barely squeaked by initially by less than 1% and re-elected by 4.5% in a banner Democrat year (2020).
Honestly he should win NC, but it was never likely to be some blowout.
If Cooper loses NC, then the Democrats are going to have a horrible night in November.
Cooper was elected on one thing: to let men in women’s bathrooms after Republicans worked to repeal Charlotte’s ordinance to let men in women’s bathrooms. McCrory pushed to repeal Charlotte’s ordinance. In the post-Obergefell era, he was popular because the ACC moved events out of Charlotte and Greensboro because of McCrory and the pressure worked to but him in office.
Complete mental disconnect. But then, that describes all leftists.
“Cooper ahead? What the hell is wrong with NC voters?!
Virginia has fallen, and the infection seems to be spreading down the East Coast.”
Since 1877, all but four NC governors have been RATs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_North_Carolina
This is not an infection - its the norm.
Maybe the good people in North Carolina will figure out that when they vote for this democrat, they are also voting for the God-hating, American-hating, woman-hating, child- mutilating freak show that comprises the democrat party.
Cooper was way ahead...this is a huge shift in the correct direction.
Eggheads regurgitate boiler plate.
Voters TEND to GO.
Observers SEE.
That's misleading. They were "Blue Dog" Democrats for the most part.
Roy Cooper had 52 of his vetoes overridden by Republicans in the Legislature.
Cockroaches will be cockroaches.
But RATS could be conservative up until about 2000. Then the leftist infection took hold.
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