AP Declares Obama Winner of North Carolina's 15 Electoral Votes Created: Thursday, 06 Nov 2008, 12:11 PM EST Obama Wins N.C.


RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Barack Obama won North Carolina on Thursday, a symbolic triumph for the president-elect that underscored his political strength as he turned nine states that President Bush won in 2004 to Democratic blue.

The Associated Press declared Obama the winner after canvassing counties in North Carolina to determine the number of outstanding
provisional ballots. That survey found that Republican John McCain can not close the 13,693-vote deficit among the remaining ballots.

North Carolina's 15 electoral votes brings Obama's total to 364 -- nearly 100 more than necessary to win the White House -- to McCain's 162. Missouri is the only state that remains too close to call, with McCain leading by several thousand votes.

Obama's win in North Carolina was the first for a Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter won the state in 1976.

Obama ran an aggressive general election campaign in North Carolina after his wide primary victory in the state over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested he could win a trove of electoral votes that most assumed would belong to McCain.
Obama won more than 1.1 million early votes, giving him a 180,000-vote advantage heading into Election Day -- a gap too great for McCain to overcome.

McCain spent months watching North Carolina from afar during the summer as Obama visited regularly, but the GOP nominee returned to the state in the campaign's final few weeks as polls suggested an Obama victory was possible.

That provided an opening for Obama that didn't exist 20 years ago, said Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Obama also performed well among white voters. He got 38 percent of the vote among whites, far higher than in deep South states such as Alabama and Mississippi, where he barely won 10 percent of the white vote.

Carla Williams, 37, A political specialist with UNCG said "North Carolina has become much more diverse in the voting population. Republicans Can no longer take N.C. for granted."
Most Political experts agree that North Carolina will move more and more toward the Democrats Over the next few elections as the older Reagan Democrats die off.

Obama's win completed the party's sweep at the top of the North Carolina ticket. Beverly Perdue was elected the state's first female governor, while Kay Hagan unseated one of the GOP's most respected figures in Sen. Elizabeth Dole.

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WOW!
That is truly amazing.
I never thought I would see the day North Carolina turned BLUE!!

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I wonder how many other similarities we'll find between Obama and Carter in the upcoming years. I'm jes sayin'...

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Yea, Obama won NC and VA. VA surprised me (I bet Robert E. Lee is rolling right now, LOL). But, NC didn't surprise me at all. NC is a huge dump anymore, it sure has changed in the last decade to be sure. I think a lot of it has to do with simply being on the coast. Look at the west coast even. There are simply more big cities and we all know big cities have less, or no, morals than do rural areas. Hence, the Dims win those areas. Makes sense really.

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Being from NC I have to agree, its a freakin dump. The rural areas are still ok but we have seen an invasion of damn yankees and hispanics and its starting to really kill my southern hospitality. I never thought I would get cut off on a country road by a donkey in a bmw with "messiah" stickers covering the windows.....lol Traffic jams where there use to be nothing but one gas station and a huddle house that none of the locals ate at. Im seriously considering making a perminant move to my vacation home in western SOUTH carolina where things are still slow, simple, and friendly for the most part.

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Was thru Raleigh-Durham a year ago....what has been over run in the NC Golden Triangle area---mostly out-of-staters.

It's a beautiful state.....esp north & west (Asheville) of Charlotte!

But respect 'the hill' coming out of the Smokies!!

Golden triangle area? Im taking that as sarcasim and yes the best thing about the old north state is the western parts. Mountain folk keep it real no non scense and down to earth and will let out siders know they are not welcome.

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