that he's about to lose as a swing state.

Like Colorado, Ohio and Florida?

NC is going for Romney. There are a LOT of rednecks here.

I saw tons of Obama supporters in the Triangle and if there are Romney supporters, they weren't enthusiastic ones.

Maybe in some locality there were more Romney supporters. But I very much doubt it's true for the whole sate.

I voted in a new polling place today and the line was 45 minutes long. I live in a very democratic area. Drove by my old polling place and the same thing, long lines. n

I arrived at 3:30 pm and the place was jammed. I had to wait in line and the workers told me it had been that way all day. I live in a heavily Democratic area.

if NC was going for Obama then obama would be +10 at least in ohio.

He was a far way from winning Ohio by 10-points in '08.

of the states that use romney voting equipment???

don't fall for it...

Shifting 5 staffers at this stage won't change diddly.

there is also those Black Bible Humping Fundie Hypocrites. Enthusiasm is so low they say.

Republicans, according to WRAL, are leading in absentee ballot REQUESTS, which is something I thought was typical thug behavior and worthy of a meh.

...unbiased sources, I would say that it means that the right wing is gambling that they will luck out in North Carolina, and are concentrating their work force in places where it is desperately needed. It appears to me like this strategy is the panic logic of a sinking ship.

If they think they got it in the bank, lest prove them wrong.

I don't think people realize how much of a macro strategy campaigns use. They set staffing levels well in advance and map out everything. To move staff around 2 weeks before an election is ALWAYS a bad sign, regardless of their stated reason. It generally means that something has gone wrong somewhere else. In this case, they are losing Ohio, and they know whatever happens, they can't win without it.

But it makes no sense to pull staff out of another close state, lose that, and then win Ohio. So you take the swing state where you think you have the best chance of winning, where you could still win if you move some staff out, which is North Carolina for Romney, and you move them into the critical state, telling everyone you have that state in the bag.

i'm sure mccain was confident about nc, too.

HAHAHA!

Although he's already spent a ton of money here. Him and Rove's Super Pac

I think this state is lost. Even a poll a few weeks ago showed Romney picking up a small slice of the black vote.

In fact in states with early voting more people voted to date in 2012 than in 2008.

And please show us where there is an enthusiasm problem. Because all I see is MASSIVE Crowds for the President, and more signs, more stickers, more early voters.

from the same article:
A WRAL News poll from October 2008 showed 92 percent of black voters in North Carolina supported Obama, while only 3 percent backed Republican nominee John McCain. In a WRAL News poll released two weeks ago, Obama's support among black voters has fallen to 87 percent, with 12 percent saying they plan to back Republican Mitt Romney.

Those results are moving in the opposite direction from overall Democratic support for Obama, which is higher this year.
That sliver of the AA support that's broken off may be canceled out
and let's be honest - 87 percent of any demographic is still a fucking wipeout

Thank you for your concern.

But I think you are very borderline.

In a red area of the state, and I was in and out in ten minutes, including the time it took me to vote. I voted straight ticket, but marked every vote separately.

He has so much money... it's a head-fake, or stupidity on his part.

They know that their ads aren't having an effect and they need people on the ground to organize a ground game. Problem is . . . they don't know how to do it.

In NC they have what they have and very hard to organize a ground game in Appalachia. They are going to OH where they can at least pretend to do something useful.

Not that it will matter.

No way they can be that sure of NC with 3 weeks to go.

Romney needs NC more than Ohio. No way he pulls up shop if he was worried. He loses NC and Ohio doesn't even matter. MAYBE a huge Obama push there would help, but no way does Obama shift resources to a state he doesn't need.

or both. NC is still in play.

than republicans. NC is in play godammit. Frankly if the often inept Romney campaign thinks it makes sense to leave NC on a day when Chapel Hill lined up for HOURS to vote, I say "please proceed."

most likely they are trolls.

... with a significant latino turnout, and Ohio goes to Romney where frankly Obama appears to be lagging in the affluent suburbs and well as the agri-rural areas, then Romney would not need North Carolina if Ryan delivers Wisconsin and the Republican machine is able to shake the argi-energy-rural parts of PA loose enough with the same message that is working in for them in agri-rural Ohio. I'm guessing it's Ohio and PA where they start to put in a big push because of a perceived Obama vulnerability on the energy issue. See how much energy comes up in the third foreign policy debate and that will be a good proxy for what the Republicans are thinking.

Yes, motherfuckers. I'm going to call you fuckers out.

And laugh.