Would you be so kind as to educate this Texan about how Gov. Perdue’s numbers dropped so fast? It’s interesting since she was just elected. You mentioned a tax increase — which alone ought to do it — but have there been other issues?
Off topic: I visited your neck of the woods recently. Absolutely beautiful country. Too bad about all the libs.
Well, NC is broke—not California broke, but still broke. The legislature is deadlocked staring at a budget deficit of something like $1.5 billion for the next two years, and all they’re talking about doing to close that gap is raising taxes, NOT cutting spending or waste. Large parts of the state are suffering from high unemployment and the loss of industry (manufacturing here has been devastated like it has everywhere else). We’re drowning in illegal aliens. People are nervous and scared about the economy, and they’re starting to figure out that Governor Dumplin’ is just another tax-and-spend liberal who’s planning to raid working peoples’ wallets to put money in the hands of the Usual Suspects (Raleigh fat cats, the teachers’ unions, etc.).
Plus she’s just dumber than a bag of hammers, or at least sounds it sometimes. McCrory should have been able to clean her clock, but she probably won because of two things—mainly Obama’s coattails, but also the natural suspicion that rural people “down east” have about anybody from big-city Charlotte.
Unfortunately for me, I live in the single bluest area in the state, Nifongville (Durham). 76-22 for Obama in 2008. The only way Bev couldn’t have won here is if she showed up to a campaign rally in Sheets Byrd’s old white sheet and hood.
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