[DeFault User]

Voting east of Charlotte. Longest lines I've seen in the 30 years I've been voting here. My precinct is heavily Republican and is turning out the vote. Other precincts in South and East Charlotte are experiencing long lines, 1-2 hours (1 hour when I voted).

[mtbrandon49]

Voted Tuesday and bumping for later!!!

[hershey]

This isn't about NC, but I have Fox on and they showed a video of Kerry and the missus eating lunch at the Oyster House in Boston. Kerry smiling, being chummy with one and all. TerAYsa had a very glum look on her face, as if she's been told really, really bad news about private polling numbers. She was just going through the motions.

[Southern_Republican]

About a 10 minute wait in Troutman, NC no one passing out info. Done my at work earlier.

[Zack Attack]

I voted in Winston-Salem this morning. This was the first time I've ever had to wait in a line to vote at our site. They were letting them in 6-8 at a time and closing the doors. Waited about an hour and 20 mins. Around 500 had voted at our location by the time I did just before noon.

[MitchellC]

NW Charlotte. Showed up around 10:30, had around a 2 hr wait. In the neighborhood, there were about 5 B/C signs for every 1 or 2 K/E signs.

[Alia]

Lee County here. Voted early! (Like, as soon as we were "allowed" to). lol Today, however, is the first day I've seen these many Kerry stickers. Up until today, Lee County has been awash, right left up down in W04, Bush/Cheney stickers, posters, signs, tertiary designs, on purses, backs of coats, cars, houses, baby strollers, stores..... Even so, not that many Kerry/Edwards signs; just a few more than any past day.

[fso301]

1. The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is the oldest State University in the United States.
2. In 1903 the Wright Brothers made the first successful powered flight by man at Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk. The Wright Memorial at Kitty Hawks now commemorates their achievement.
3. High Point is known as the Furniture Capital of the World.
4. Know as "Fish Town" in the early 1700's when Blackbeard frequented the coast, "Beaufort Town" was established as a seaport with the right to collect customs, in 1722.
5. The Outer Banks of NC hosts some of the most beautiful beaches in the country.
6. Whitewater Falls in Transylvania County is the highest waterfall in the eastern United States.
7. Cape Hatteras is the largest lighthouse ever to be moved due to erosion problems.
8. The University of North Carolina's mascot, the Tarheels, is a nickname for North Carolinians that supposedly came from the days when NC produced a lot of tar, and someone saw a set of footprints made by someone who had stepped in the tar.
9. Charles Karault was born and raised in Wilmington.
10. Havelock is home of Marine Base "Cherry Point." It is the largest air base in the Marine Corps.
11. North Carolina is the largest producer of sweet potatoes in the nation. Students at a Wilson County school petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly for the establishment of the sweet potato as the official state vegetable.
12. Harker's Island hosts the annual Core Sound Decoy Festival in December.
13. Morehead City is home to the North Carolina Seafood Festival, held the first weekend in October every year.
14. The World War II battleship 'North Carolina' is permanently berthed on the Cape Fear River at Wilmington. She was saved from the scrap heap in the 1960's by public subscription, including donations of dimes by schoolchildren.
15. The first English colony in America was located on Roanoke Island. Walter Raleigh founded it. The colony mysteriously vanished with no trace except for the word "Croatoan" scrawled on a nearby tree.
16. Mount Mitchell in the Blue Ridge Mountains is the highest peak east of the Mississippi. It towers 6,684 feet above sea level.
17. Krispy Kreme Doughnut was founded in Winston-Salem.
18. The Venus Fly-Trap is native to Hampstead.
19. The first miniature golf course was built in Fayetteville.
20. Babe Ruth hit his first home run in Fayetteville on March 7, 1914.
21. Winston-Salem was created when the two towns Winston and Salem combined.
22. The Biltmore Estate in Ashville is America's largest home, and includes a 255-room chateau, an award-winning winery and extensive gardens.
23. The first English child born in America was born in Roanoke in 1587. Her name was Virginia Dare.
24. The Lost Colony Outdoor Drama in Albemarle commemorates the birth of Virginia Dare. Scheduled to run just one year, it proved so successful that it has played for nearly sixty consecutive summers.
25. The first state owned art museum in the country is located in Raleigh.
26. Fontana Dam is the tallest dam in the Eastern United States, at 480 feet high.
27. Many people believe that North Carolina was the first state to declare independence from England with the Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775.
28. Grandfather Mountain, highest peak in the Blue Ridge, is the only private park in the world designated by the United Nations as an International Biosphere Reserve.
29. The Mile-High Swinging Bridge near Linville is 5,305 feet above sea level. The bridge actually hangs about 80 feet above the ground.
30. Pepsi was invented and first served in New Bern in 1898.
31. Beech Mountain is Eastern America's highest town at 5,506ft above sea level.
32. Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, was born in the Waxsaws area on the border of North and South Carolina.
33. Arnold Palmer recognized as the player whose aggressive play and winning personality raised golf to national attention, honed his skills on the championship golf team of Wake Forest University.
34. James K. Polk, born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, was the eleventh President of the United States.
35. Hiram Rhoades Revels, born in Fayetteville in 1822, was the first African-American member of the United States Congress.
36. Andrew Johnson started his career as a tailor's apprentice in Raleigh, North Carolina and rose to lead in the reuniting of the nation as the seventeenth President of the United States.
37. North Carolina leads the nation in furniture, tobacco, brick, and textile production.
38. Saluda, North Carolina is located at the top of the Saluda Grade. The crest of the steepest standard gauge mainline railroad in the United States.
39. State Motto: Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem)
40. The town of Wendell town was named for the American writer, Oliver Wendell Holmes.
41. The Swiss and German settlement of New Bern was named in honor of the founder's home, Bern, Switzerland. When Bern, Switzerland was founded, it was named by a group of hunters. They named the city for the first animal they came upon on their hunting expedition. It was a bear. "Bern" is the old Germanic word for Bear, and the bear became the symbol of the city. It has been adopted by New Bern, as well.
42. North Carolina was the first state in the nation to establish a state museum of art.
43. North Carolina was one of the first states in the U.S. to establish a state symphony. The North Carolina Symphony, founded in 1943, currently performs nearly 185 full-orchestra concerts each year.
44. North Carolina has the largest state-maintained highway system in the United States. The state's highway system currently has 77,400 miles of roads
45. The General Assembly of 1987 adopted milk as the official state beverage.
46. The oldest town in the state is Bath, incorporated in 1705.
47. Located in northeastern North Carolina on the Albemarle-Pamlico peninsula, Columbia is on the eastern shore of the Scuppernong River. The Indians called the area "the place of the sweet bay tree."
48. Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in Fayetteville on March 7, 1914.
49. White Lake near Elizabethtown is very unique in that it has a white sandy bottom and is blessed with crystal clear waters. It has also been labeled as the "Nation's Safest Beach." It is truly a child's paradise in that there are no currents, no tides, no hazardous depressions or real dangers of any kind to swimmers.
50. North Carolina has 1,500 lakes of 10 acres or more in size and 37,000 miles of fresh water streams.

[Incorrigible]

Constitution Day,

Be sure to post the results for the candidate!

[JWinNC]

I worked Monday and Tuesday in Orange Co. I had a great time. I enjoy getting out and meeting everyone on both sides. There was one obnoxious Dem working at my poll. I expect he is whistling a different tune today.

On the negative side:
I'm really disappointed at the turnout in my precinct. I also think the Republican party in NC is failing. We've got to get better and do better. I'm in liberal territory, so maybe my view is skewed. I have not looked at the data, but my impression is that we can thank the unaffiliated voters and crossover Dems for helping us with Bush and Burr. I don’t think we won those two on Republican or conservative strength.

jw

[clyde asbury]

Presidential results, by county:

  2004 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS

North Carolina

2004-11-04 21:44:04 GMT

(i) = incumbent

= winner

= runoff

President

County	Precincts	Bush	Kerry	Badnarik
Total	2769/2769	1,919,932 56.11%	1,488,315 43.50%	13,297 .39%
Alamance	37/37	32,914 61.64%	20,334 38.08%	153 .29%
Alexander	17/17	10,678 69.40%	4,657 30.27%	52 .34%
Alleghany	7/7	2,844 59.75%	1,898 39.87%	18 .38%
Anson	11/11	3,788 41.39%	5,350 58.45%	15 .16%
Ashe	17/17	7,254 61.68%	4,453 37.87%	53 .45%
Avery	19/19	5,589 75.65%	1,772 23.98%	27 .37%
Beaufort	21/21	12,355 63.86%	6,936 35.85%	57 .29%
Bertie	12/12	3,018 38.58%	4,770 60.97%	35 .45%
Bladen	17/17	6,145 50.44%	6,009 49.32%	29 .24%
Brunswick	23/23	22,819 60.43%	14,809 39.22%	130 .34%
Buncombe	71/71	51,686 50.14%	50,903 49.38%	493 .48%
Burke	31/31	16,075 61.06%	10,153 38.57%	98 .37%
Cabarrus	42/42	40,270 67.17%	19,464 32.46%	221 .37%
Caldwell	24/24	20,799 67.64%	9,839 32.00%	110 .36%
Camden	3/3	2,271 62.96%	1,329 36.85%	7 .19%
Carteret	34/34	16,904 69.36%	7,369 30.24%	97 .40%
Caswell	11/11	4,873 51.63%	4,543 48.14%	22 .23%
Catawba	40/40	39,017 67.60%	18,520 32.09%	179 .31%
Chatham	22/22	12,712 49.84%	12,679 49.71%	114 .45%
Cherokee	16/16	7,382 66.87%	3,617 32.77%	40 .36%
Chowan	6/6	2,240 45.41%	1,780 36.08%	913 18.51%
Clay	9/9	3,185 65.94%	1,620 33.54%	25 .52%
Cleveland	28/28	22,509 61.45%	14,028 38.30%	93 .25%
Columbus	26/26	10,585 51.02%	10,101 48.69%	60 .29%
Craven	26/26	32,385 62.50%	19,229 37.11%	203 .39%
Cumberland	65/65	48,042 51.87%	44,328 47.86%	245 .26%
Currituck	11/11	5,954 66.96%	2,887 32.47%	51 .57%
Dare	16/16	9,247 60.12%	6,075 39.49%	60 .39%
Davidson	42/42	41,780 70.88%	16,962 28.78%	201 .34%
Davie	14/14	12,343 74.20%	4,225 25.40%	66 .40%
Duplin	19/19	9,468 58.13%	6,780 41.62%	41 .25%
Durham	61/61	34,124 31.75%	72,986 67.90%	374 .35%
Edgecombe	21/21	7,990 38.97%	12,478 60.86%	35 .17%
Forsyth	101/101	74,743 54.34%	62,333 45.32%	476 .35%
Franklin	17/17	11,341 55.22%	9,127 44.44%	68 .33%
Gaston	46/46	34,492 69.19%	15,186 30.46%	174 .35%
Gates	5/5	1,920 47.48%	2,117 52.35%	7 .17%
Graham	4/4	2,687 66.48%	1,270 31.42%	85 2.10%
Granville	14/14	9,438 51.17%	8,962 48.59%	44 .24%
Greene	10/10	3,790 58.81%	2,648 41.09%	7 .11%
Guilford	160/160	97,905 49.46%	99,223 50.12%	831 .42%
Halifax	30/30	7,996 41.34%	11,322 58.54%	23 .12%
Harnett	22/22	20,649 64.49%	11,289 35.26%	79 .25%
Haywood	29/29	14,607 56.32%	11,222 43.27%	108 .42%
Henderson	35/35	27,390 64.95%	14,608 34.64%	171 .41%
Hertford	13/13	2,827 36.38%	4,903 63.09%	41 .53%
Hoke	13/13	5,180 47.64%	5,663 52.08%	30 .28%
Hyde	7/7	1,222 53.76%	1,042 45.84%	9 .40%
Iredell	29/29	37,841 67.99%	17,673 31.75%	142 .26%
Jackson	18/18	7,283 51.80%	6,700 47.66%	76 .54%
Johnston	34/34	31,304 68.36%	14,384 31.41%	108 .24%
Jones	7/7	2,564 58.10%	1,837 41.63%	12 .27%
Lee	13/13	11,443 60.83%	7,319 38.91%	48 .26%
Lenoir	22/22	12,745 57.11%	9,539 42.75%	31 .14%
Lincoln	29/29	19,878 67.88%	9,318 31.82%	88 .30%
McDowell	17/17	10,484 66.26%	5,274 33.33%	64 .40%
Macon	15/15	9,416 63.00%	5,465 36.57%	64 .43%
Madison	12/12	5,113 54.72%	4,178 44.71%	53 .57%
Martin	13/13	5,302 51.12%	5,055 48.74%	14 .13%
Mecklenburg	190/190	154,177 47.85%	167,051 51.85%	972 .30%
Mitchell	9/9	7,218 77.61%	2,054 22.09%	28 .30%
Montgomery	14/14	5,619 57.05%	4,212 42.76%	19 .19%
Moore	23/23	24,149 64.52%	13,186 35.23%	93 .25%
Nash	26/26	13,709 57.31%	10,167 42.51%	43 .18%
New Hanover	46/46	44,804 55.87%	35,103 43.78%	282 .35%
Northampton	18/18	3,163 36.24%	5,558 63.68%	7 .08%
Onslow	23/23	25,396 69.55%	10,996 30.12%	121 .33%
Orange	43/43	20,673 32.46%	42,683 67.03%	323 .51%
Pamlico	8/8	3,650 60.93%	2,320 38.73%	20 .33%
Pasquotank	13/13	6,546 48.51%	6,895 51.09%	54 .40%
Pender	17/17	9,917 58.72%	6,928 41.02%	44 .26%
Perquimans	7/7	2,964 59.82%	1,971 39.78%	20 .40%
Person	14/14	8,928 59.04%	6,152 40.69%	41 .27%
Pitt	38/38	28,099 53.43%	24,386 46.37%	105 .20%
Polk	10/10	4,846 57.35%	3,516 41.61%	88 1.04%
Randolph	40/40	37,109 74.45%	12,575 25.23%	160 .32%
Richmond	16/16	7,604 47.94%	8,229 51.88%	30 .19%
Robeson	41/41	15,471 47.26%	17,172 52.45%	94 .29%
Rockingham	31/31	22,450 61.33%	14,068 38.43%	87 .24%
Rowan	46/46	34,549 67.42%	16,517 32.23%	181 .35%
Rutherford	24/24	16,190 66.29%	8,106 33.19%	126 .52%
Sampson	23/23	12,374 56.76%	9,389 43.07%	38 .17%
Scotland	10/10	5,097 44.54%	6,330 55.31%	17 .15%
Stanly	24/24	17,744 69.87%	7,567 29.79%	86 .34%
Stokes	20/20	13,404 69.97%	5,702 29.77%	50 .26%
Surry	29/29	17,241 67.63%	8,153 31.98%	100 .39%
Swain	5/5	2,591 51.49%	2,416 48.01%	25 .50%
Transylvania	18/18	9,172 61.29%	5,707 38.14%	86 .57%
Tyrrell	6/6	850 34.98%	727 29.92%	853 35.10%
Union	43/43	42,266 70.36%	17,639 29.36%	168 .28%
Vance	16/16	6,870 43.90%	8,749 55.90%	31 .20%
Wake	197/197	172,563 51.26%	162,750 48.35%	1,300 .39%
Warren	14/14	2,737 35.45%	4,973 64.42%	10 .13%
Washington	6/6	2,465 45.58%	2,931 54.20%	12 .22%
Watauga	20/20	12,485 52.72%	11,064 46.72%	132 .56%
Wayne	30/30	23,826 62.44%	14,267 37.39%	64 .17%
Wilkes	29/29	18,935 70.66%	7,783 29.04%	79 .29%
Wilson	25/25	16,287 53.80%	13,924 46.00%	60 .20%
Yadkin	12/12	12,220 77.30%	3,544 22.42%	45 .28%
Yancey	11/11	4,769 52.31%	4,315 47.33%	33 .36%

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[clyde asbury]

Notice that Tyrrell County has more votes for Badnarik than for either Kerry or President Bush.

[clyde asbury]

  2004 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS

North Carolina

2004-11-05 00:46:07 GMT

(i) = incumbent

= winner

= runoff

President - 2769 of 2769 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Bush, George (i)	Rep	1,910,936	56.07
	Kerry, John	Dem	1,484,158	43.55
	Badnarik, Michael	Lib	13,224	.39

Governor - 2769 of 2769 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Ballantine, Patrick	Rep	1,462,353	43.20
	Easley, Mike (i)	Dem	1,871,856	55.30
	Howe, Barbara	Lib	50,858	1.50

U.S. Senate - 2769 of 2769 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Burr, Richard	Rep	1,742,182	51.61
	Bowles, Erskine	Dem	1,586,968	47.01
	Bailey, Tom	Lib	46,606	1.38

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