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To: Road Walker who wrote (528757)	11/13/2009 2:04:04 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575626

Except for voting for Obama (and the margin was not large then and polls have shown the state shifting away from Democrats again), its voted for Republican presidential candidates going back to 1976 (when Ford won the whole west, most of New England, much of the Midwest, and NJ, but Carter won by taking NY, PN, and OH, and sweeping the south except VA), and also in 68 and 72. Even when Dole won barely 40% of the vote NC voted for him. Twice in my lifetime, and not by large margins, NC voted for a Democratic president. Once after Watergate with a southern Democrat who was considered a moderate, and once during a severe recession after the term of a very unpopular Republican president. I'm not a fan of this "red state/blue state" nomenclature, but if we are going to use it NC is a red state.