I think that, before we read too much into this, I need to remind everyone of SUSA's (and everyone else's) stellar performance in Alabama. The Deep South seems to be a big thorn in the pollsters' sides this year, and the peripheral South part that has blacks isn't great either. We'll see.
Theoretically, North Carolina should be like Virginia, except there are much, much fewer upscale whites and somehow I suspect the Republicans and Indys aren't going to do the total swing to Obama like happened in VA (times are different). As Al would point out, fortunately for him, a decent amount of lower-income whites are Republicans, otherwise...
...he'd win by a smaller margin.
