The NC folks are speaking truth and wisdom in this thread. They know what's up. I have my own issues with McCrory, but you gotta be REALLY careful about taking the media's word around here. Local print and televised media is or has become something like "all MSNBC all the time." You shoulda heard what these loonies said about me! lol
NC has always been a red state that was gerrymandered blue. The 2008 General was a true aberration. It's technically possible that the 2016 General will go blue out of kickback from some pretty significant strategic and tactical blunders by the NCGA, but unlikely.
We live in a weird state. Rural Dems are more conservative than the Republicans.
NC will trend blue over the course of say 20 years because the NCGOP is doing everything they can to piss off Millennials. They could change course and start picking up the youth vote, but the Party leadership is still trying to figure out how to move the Millennials to embrace the bluehairs rather than moving the bluehairs to embrace the Millennials. It doesn't work that way that the Party Leadership doesn't get it. IF they figure it out and get their act together, we have a chance at turning that trend around.
People do have short goldfish-like memories, and the media is going all indigo-blue around here, so there may be some blowback from the current General Assembly, but that blowback will hit in 2014, which should protect 2016 to some extent.
Anything you get from the media about NC politics is probably going to be so distorted as to be unrecognizable, or a flat out lie. TRUST me, there is plenty to grouse about wrt Republicans in this State, but the media is behaving irrationally. They don't cover the failings they should, while they
will cover a mouse turd and turn it into elephant dung.
Whatever you do, do not take the media's word for
anything that happens in this State. That's not a defense of the GOP, they do
plenty wrong that the media never bothers to cover.
