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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Democrats Plan Hard Fight In North Carolina

(AP)

President Obama won North Carolina by about 14,000 votes in 2008. But Rick Thames, editor of the Charlotte Observer, says Obama faces a challenge to win the state this year.

The Observer’s new poll of voters shows that 23 percent of white Democrats surveyed voted for Obama in 2008, and this year only 9 percent indicate they will.

Thames says as a swing state, North Carolina is very important to Republican party nominee Mitt Romney, who can’t win the White House without it. The President is expected to fight to hold onto North Carolina, so Thames expects a pitched battle there.

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  • Ed

    The editor of the Charlotte Observer, a paper you described as wonderful, said that voters were leaning toward Romney because he had a plan in place to help the economy.  

    If he thinks what Romney has talked about (12 million jobs!) is a detailed plan please advise the rest of us on it.

    We also want to know about what N.C. voters think of Romney’s many flip flops and his running mate’s numerous lies in his acceptance speech that MOST media folks called him on. 

    Would have been more informative to have not had this man on your show today.   

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