Posted on 11/04/2008 5:00:40 PM PST by MitchellC
This is the discussion thread for North Carolina results. Post important news and info here; I'll make new posts for the final results of the major races here, but in the meantime, this is where we can sweat and celebrate.
Some of the major races other than McCain-Obama, for interested outsiders...
Governor: Pat McCrory (R, 13 year mayor of Charlotte) v Beverly Perdue (D, Lt. Governor)
Senate: Elizabeth Dole (R, Inc) v Kay Hagan (D, state senator)
Lt. Governor: Robert Pittenger (R, state senator) v Walter Dalton (D, state senator)
8th US House District: Robin Hayes (R, inc) v Larry Kissell (D, school teacher) - Hayes survived a challenge from Kissell in 2006 by only a few hundred votes.
Very interesting. I can’t say I’ve ever voted with great enthusiasm for any Bush or Dole.
Bush 88 (P)
Bush 92 (P)
Dole 96 (P)
Bush 00 (P)
Dole 02 (S)
Bush 04 (P)
Remarkable.
I wish Reagan would have produced offspring with comparable political aspiration and allegiance to the father’s politics...
Hagan up 52% to 44.5%
Perdue over McCrory by 2.3%
Dalton over Pittenger by 4.4%
US House: Butterfield, Etheridge, Jones, Price, Foxx, Coble, McIntyre, Kissell, Myrick, McHenry, Shuler, Watt, Miller. The closest is Kissel over Hates, but it's a 7% margin.
While I’m here on this now dismal night, I’ll give a shout-out to my home county of Yadkin — not a single Democrat prevailed in any race.... National, State, or Local. Pleased to hold up our end here in the Western Piedmont.
McCrory has closed to 1.45% - 50,000 votes - with 15 counties still not reporting...he’s been closing all night. My bet is that this one ends up with a recount.
...I live in Ashe County and we went strong Republican too....when I went to the fire hall to vote at 10am this morning they had been busy since they opened at 6:30...lots of people were fired up about this election.
Cumberland County/Fayetteville went for 0bama, 59 percent, but that was expected.
Dang... Perdue extends lead and is now over 50%. Mea culpa — that race now virtually over as well.
Lessons to be learned (that should have already been learned):
If you want to win the White House, you must start early, get organized, get to the battlegrounds “firstest with the mostest.”
If you want to be re-elected to an NC Senate seat, don’t act like Mr. Edwards, “Senator Gone.” You can’t be too busy for your state and you can’t go to sleep at the wheel.
jw
Clearly, Linda Daves the NC GOP chair is an abject failure, but we’ve always known the Daves are fakes.
Looks to me as if the People in NC are determined to get across to the REPs that they are pissed off and fed up with the past four years.
That's your non-religious Republican protest vote.
A Pubbie steps into the voting booth, is upset with Dole and won't vote for her, can't quite bring themselves to vote for the Dim, so votes for the third person.
Dole really pissed off a lot of people with that last ad.
What was that last ad? And who came up with it?
Dole did a mediocre job and was part of the Establishment Republican problem that got the GOP in the mess it's in.
Many people did not vote for her because she did a half-ass job.
The ad attacked Hagan for holding a fundraiser in Boston hosted by one of the leaders of Godless Americans PAC and John Kerry.
The media was incensed that Dole would try to make an issue of Hagan accepting support and funding from radical Massachusetts liberals.
Dole had lost the race a while before that, though, and her only hope was on the coattails of a McCain presidential victory.
It's a shame to lose Les Merritt (running a woman against him worked), and in a normal year Merritt wins and McCrory beats Perdue.
Of significant note: Jim Long handed the baton to Wayne Goodwin, who will continue the practice of sending out insurance rebates the month before the election with his name plastered all over the cheque.
I think all the New Yorkers who have moved here have changed the politics of the state. I know that is true in Mecklenburg County.
Because North Carolina was doing so well before the Yankees came, right? Corrupt Dems have been running the state for decades.
There's a YouTube link at the bottom of the article.
I wondered why Robin Hayes always seemed to be struggling; figured something was goofy about his district.
My Mr. Blackwood, state rep, won with about 65%. I realize that’s not a race of earth-shattering importance, but I felt strongly about it! Union has all Republican county commissioners; maybe the two added this election won’t be as crooked as the last batch. We put in two Republican at-large school board members, fwiw. Recorder of Deeds, Soil and Water Supervisor, and so on.
I’ve been failing to panic through this whole election cycle, and I’m certainly not going to start now. My major trial in the near future is getting through Mass a week from Sunday with no guitar. (Viola, violin, percussion, and vocal. Ole’!
Mrs. Dole was a generally solid Republican vote in the Senate, but that didn’t do a lot of good for her image when the administration line was so unpopular. She doesn’t even have a good haircut any more; apparently her stylist decided to go all Urban, and now she looks old.
I’ve always liked the Doles, and I hope they enjoy their well-earned retirement back in Ioway or wherever they come from.
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