ELECTION 2008: NORTH CAROLINA RACES

Total Number of Precincts Reporting: 83%

Bev Perdue: 50%  |  Pat McCrory 47%

This is Baker Newswire’s official coverage of the 2008 North Carolina Governor’s Race.  The map above will be updated on a minute-by-minute basis based on various projections from different news networks, as well as polling data.

10:32 PM – Bev Perdue has won the race for NC Governor; Robin Hayes loses to Larry Kissell.

9:57 PM – Virginia Foxx has won reelection.

9:56 PM – Perdue 50%, McCrory 47%.  The race is tightening!

9:37 PM – The Governor’s race is tight, and Mecklenburg has only reported 5% of the votes.

8:51 PM – The race between McCrory and Perdue remains close, as Mecklenburg County is only reporting 1% of the total votes at the moment.  Things aren’t looking so well for Dole at this time.

7:45 PM – Obama, Perdue, and Dole are slightly ahead at this time.

7:35 PM – Dare County is the only county reporting numbers at this time.

Updated 9:38 PM

 

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CNN declines request to air Obama’s 30 minute campaign spot

The Obama campaign asked CNN to air its 30-minute campaign ad, scheduled for Wednesday evening, but the network turned them down.

“CNN was approached by the Obama campaign and declined their request,” the network said in a Tuesday statement. “We did not want to pre-empt our programming lineup with a 30-minute campaign commercial. We prefer to use our air to continue to cover the campaign, candidates and issues like we always do from all points of view with the best political team on television.”

The half hour infomercial will be airing on CBS, NBC, FOX television, MSNBC, Univision, BET and TV One.  Maybe it’s just me, but I applaud CNN for not airing the content, as I feel that a news organization’s responsibility is to be as unbiased as possible (granted, I believe there will always be political ‘tones’ with each network).

 

RCP: Swing state polling averages

Useful poll information, courtesy of Real Clear Politics.  Essentially, they gather the information from various polls conducted recently, and combine them to determine an average.

Colorado	51.3	43.0	Obama +8.3
Ohio	49.3	43.0	Obama +6.3
Florida	48.2	44.8	Obama +3.4
Nevada	50.0	42.5	Obama +7.5
Missouri	47.4	46.8	Obama +0.6
North Carolina	48.3	47.0	Obama +1.3
Virginia	50.7	43.3	Obama +7.4

Make sure to point your browser to us on Tuesday, November 4th, as we will be covering Election 2008 minute by minute.  Not only will we be covering Carolina politics and the presidential race, we will also be covering various races across the nation!

 

Bev Perdue contradicting herself?

I found this quite interesting.  Watch the videos in order, and feel free to comment in the comments section.