Check out NC vote numbers Gov. and President.

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STATUS CANDIDATE VOTE VOTE % EV


Bush
(Incumbent)
1,910,936 56% 15

Kerry

1,484,158 44% 0

Badnarik

13,224 0% 0





STATUS CANDIDATE VOTE VOTE %


Easley
(Incumbent)
1,871,856 55%

Ballantine

1,462,353 43%

Howe

50,858 2%


Easley for President 2008?

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3. from his site

Gov. Mike Easley (D) of North Carolina:



Under Governor Michael F. Easley’s leadership, North Carolina’s top ranked business climate prospers. Governor Easley has taken action to control spending growth and reduce the cost of government to finance increased investments in education and infrastructure – key components to attracting quality business and industry to the state. Easley’s innovative strategies have helped lure new and expanding businesses. General Electric, General Dynamics, and Merck Company have chosen to expand their presence in North Carolina in the past year.

Education is among Easley’s top priorities. He is working to reduce class size in grades K-3, and his “More at Four” pre-kindergarten program for at-risk four-year-olds ensures that children come to school prepared and ready to learn. The state’s growing investment in education is paying off. North Carolina’s national test scores are among the best in the nation and the state’s highly rated community college system is helping workers across the state transition their skills to better market themselves in today’s global economy.

Easley’s inauguration as Governor followed nearly two decades of public service spent fighting crime, protecting children and the elderly, and standing up for working families. In 1982, he became district attorney for the 13th judicial district in Brunswick, Bladen and Columbus counties. One of the state’s youngest district attorneys ever, he was named among USA Today’s top “drug busters.” He was elected as North Carolina’s attorney general in 1992 and reelected to a second term in 1996. As attorney general, he worked to remove the state’s prison cap and helped create an environmental crimes task force and a citizens’ rights division to combat hate crimes, child abuse and elder abuse. He spearheaded efforts to reach the historic national tobacco settlement and expanded the Child Victims Assistance Project, a program he started as district attorney.

Born in Nash County, North Carolina in 1950, Easley was raised on a tobacco farm the second of seven children. Easley received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina in 1972 with honors. In 1975, he earned his law degree from North Carolina Central University School of Law, where his wife Mary now serves as a professor of law. He graduated cum laude from law school and also served as Managing Editor of the Law Review. He and his wife Mary have one child, Michael, Jr.

http://www.governor.state.nc.us/MeetGov/Biography.asp

[SoCalDem]

2. So.. rabid Bush voters voted for a DEMOCRAT for governor??

OR..

Democratic voters chomping at the bit to vote...voted for a democratic governor, but thought *² was just peachy??

These numbers STINK !!!

[Carolinian]

9. It was easy to vote against Ballentine. Even the Freepers went for

Easley - I read it on Free Republic. Easley governs like a Republican.

[Awsi Dooger]

4. I followed North Carolina fairly closely

Easley was impressive in the debates, walking out from the podium and connecting with the audience. A very matter-of-fact style and he never got flustered when the young challenger Ballantine attacked him or his record. But keep in mind that's still a conservative state. The voters listed themselves as 40% conservatives and only 17% liberals. Nationwide it was 21% liberals and 34% conservatives. Easley is anything but a liberal on many areas. He even claimed he was the one to keep taxes down while Ballantine would raise them.

We survive in North Carolina primarily because the African American vote is very large. This year it was a full 26% of the voting block, compared to 11% nationwide. White voters in North Carolina continue to bury us. This year, if I remember correctly, both white men and white women in NC gave Bush at least 72%. Easley did not exactly do great among white voters, either, getting a percentage in the mid 40s, but close enough for the African American block to put him well over the top.

[Florida_Geek]

5. Read this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=170x2562

A lot of Dems won on election day. But compare the early/absentee voting percentage. They are about the same EXCEPT in two races, the Senate and President. Funny how a larger percentage voted Repug only in these two races on election day.

[Awsi Dooger]

7. Very interesting link; I'll have to look at the North Carolina vote

I'm not a BBV guy but I want to check out anything related that looks funny. True, I wouldn't expect that big of a difference on election day.

But of the top I don't fully agree with a couple of things in that thread you linked. Bowles had fallen behind in the polls, usually by 4 points or so. A North Carolina DUer with username BrentTaylor is very sharp on North Carolina politics and expected Burr to win, despite how terrible he was.

The state may be 50/50 in registration and party ID, but that 17% liberals, 40% conservatives held up in the presidential, senate and governor races. Still a conservative state. Therefore, the locally successful Democrats are undoubtedly more moderate to conservative like Easley, than a New England liberal like John Kerry. Bowles, similarly, went down in the polls when he was increasingly tied to Clinton late in the race. Election day exit polls indicated North Carolina voters gave Bush a 57% approval rating, if I remember correctly. That may indicate the conservative GOP voters did vote in high proportion on election day itself.

[patricia92243]

6. Southern, Govenor, Democrat - sounds like a presidential candidate to me.

[Carolinian]

8. Easley is a strange one. I voted for him because he's Dem but

I'm not sure I like him. He took millions from the state employee's retirement fund and put it into general operating and I think there's a lawsuit pending to have it returned.

During this election I didn't see him supporting Dem candidates and never saw him attend any K/E events although they were in Raleigh many times.

[GreenInNC]

10. DINO

Easley is a Democrat In Name Only. He would be a Republican in most parts of the US.