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Roy Cooper for U.S. Senate?

January 13, 2009

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper would be a strong candidate to face Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) in the 2010 U.S. Senate election, according to a poll conducted by Research 2000. Cooper, a Democrat who was recently reelected to his third term, is best known on campus for dismissing the charges against the three indicted [...]

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North Carolina was blue by 14,912 votes

November 20, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama won the Tar Heel state by a 14,912 vote margin, according to the (Raleigh) News & Observer. The final tally by the State Board of Elections showed that he received 49.7 percent of the vote against Sen. John McCain’s 49.38 percent. All provisional votes have been counted and the results will become [...]

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Who will the Republicans nominate in 2012?

November 10, 2008

This was a topic of significant discussion at the N.C. GOP Victory 2008 Election Night Party in Raleigh after an Obama victory began to look inevitable. Some of the names that were thrown around:
1. Gov. Sarah Palin, Alaska —The conservative base loves her. McCain called her “one of the best campaigners I’ve ever seen” in [...]

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Durham County backs Obama decisively

November 4, 2008

Filed at 10:34 p.m.
68 percent of Durham County voted for John Kerry in 2004 and, as Christine Hall reported, this was the strongest Democratic support of any N.C. County. This year Durham County residents showed even stronger support for Barack Obama, backing him with 75.8 percent of the vote.
Yadkin County, as Ryan Brown reported, was [...]

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Dole concedes race to Hagan

November 4, 2008

Filed at 10:07 p.m.
Sen. Elizabeth Dole, Woman’s College ‘58, just finished delivering her concession speech in Salisbury, N.C. She spoke about how she was not a politician “by choice” and never felt completely comfortable fraternizing with the boys in the cloak room. She said she was disappointed by the negative tone of her race against [...]

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Obama wins Ohio, Fox News and CBS project

November 4, 2008

Updated at 9:24 p.m.
Reporter Julius Jones has just informed me that CBS and Fox News are projecting a victory for Barack Obama in the state of Ohio. This represents a major victory for the Democrat in a state that President George W. Bush narrowly carried in 2004.

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Durham prepared food tax trails by wide margin

November 4, 2008

Filed at 9:03 p.m.
A Durham County referendum on a 1 percent prepared food tax is trailing by a wide margin. If passed, the tax would “primarily fund civic and cultural amenities,” as Lindsey Rupp previously reported.

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Obama wins Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, ABC projects

November 4, 2008

Filed at 8:05 p.m.
The first major projections tonight come from ABC News. They are pencilling in victories for Obama in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania—a state which McCain was said to have been targetting heavily.

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