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So what happened to North Carolina in the last election? The GOP did fine in their other strongholds
They did fine in NC as well - except for McCrory. Trump won by almost four points when polling showed the race very close (including a Quinnipiac poll just before the election showing Clinton up by two. Burr kept his Senate seat (I think by six points) when the race was supposed to be competitive (I expected to win), and they won the LG spot as well.
But McCrory's name was mud... and enormous donations flooded in to beat him.
Now, you might say that that's a tough model to duplicate nationally... but do we really have to wonder about whether or not Republicans will do something that others find offensive?
They did fine in NC as well - except for McCrory. Trump won by almost four points when polling showed the race very close (including a Quinnipiac poll just before the election showing Clinton up by two. Burr kept his Senate seat (I think by six points) when the race was supposed to be competitive (I expected to win), and they won the LG spot as well.
But McCrory's name was mud... and enormous donations flooded in to beat him.
Now, you might say that that's a tough model to duplicate nationally... but do we really have to wonder about whether or not Republicans will do something that others find offensive?
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