Filed at 10:31 p.m.
Fox News has projected that Lt. Gov. Democrat Bev Perdue has defeated Republican Pat McCrory and Libertarian Michael Munger to become the next Governor of North Carolina.
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Filed at 9:23 p.m.
Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger has 2.81 percent of North Carolina’s vote, according to unofficial results that include 17 of 100 counties completely reported and 53 counties partially reported.
If Munger, who serves as chair of Duke’s political science department, wins at least 2 percent of the vote, the Libertarian party can remain on the state’s ballot until 2012.
The unofficial results show Democratic Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue slightly ahead of Republican Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory by about 3 percentage points.
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Pat McCrory - Maya Robinson/The Chronicle
As Election Day nears, North Carolina is expected to include some of the closest races in the country. Polls show the U.S. Senate, presidential and gubernatorial races are all deadlocked. And, as Chuck Todd of MSNBC.com notes, “the Republicans feel best about their chances in the governor’s race (a campaign they usually lose) than the senate or presidential.” This may be because Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, the Republican candidate, has been able to present himself as the candidate of “change.” Democrats have dominated the North Carolina state government for the past eight years, and McCrory finds himself in the unique position of a Republican candidate who represents a change.
Mac McCorkle, a veteran political consultant for McCrory’s opponent Democratic Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue, visited my public policy class Monday. He explained that the Perdue campaign was frustrated by the way the media had “framed” the race by portraying McCrory as the candidate for change. McCorkle pointed out that many of the state’s major newspapers—including the (Raleigh) News & Observer and the Durham Herald-Sun—have endorsed McCrory. He noted, however, that if Perdue were elected she would represent a major political change as the first woman governor of North Carolina.
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