All these people who say it will be closer with Edwards are smoking something. I travel to NC every year for at least a month and my Aunt, Uncle, Grandparents, and all of their friends and neighbors say that they themselves as well as everyone they know hate him. Even my aunt, a hardcore Dem who immigrated there from MD hates him because they feel his run in 2004 left them in the lurch.
You can't judge an entire state by what your family thinks.
Tell that to everyone on the forum.
I'm not judging the whole state by what my family thinks, they are just an example of how everyone I've talked to there thinks.