PPP poll of Likely Voters in NC: Romney 48%, Obama 48%

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Wasn't Mitten's favorables already positive in NC?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Maybe it was different polling firm, but I remembered someone having him positive in NC.

I also remember PPP had him at 29% favorability a firm months ago in NC.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The GOP never did grap a majority of the registered voters like in GA and other southern states during the 1980's-2000's reallignment. You got a huge swath of populist McCain/Perdue Democrats in the rural areas, and then a bunch of moderate Democrats and Indies in the cities and suburbs that voted Obama/McCrory. Then of course you got the 42%-44% of the vote that appears to be the solid Democratic base. Some of those Obama/McCrory voters were moderate, torie type Republicans scared off by Sarah Palin and the economic crash, they will slide back to Romney. In exchange he will lose some of the populists because he is evul, rich, businessman. The big question is how big are each of those two groups and what turnout will look like.