NC-PPP: Obama ties Huckabee, leads everybody else

[freepcrusher]

true, but Kerry won the under 30 vote in 2004 and Obama won the youth vote with 74 percent in 2008. Once all the Jesse Helms worshippers start dying off, it could be ours. Remember too, that North Carolina also has a democratic history. From 1876 to 1964 it voted for a democrat in every presidential election.

[freepcrusher]

look at a place like Orange County, Florida. From the end of World War II to the turn of the century, it was a hardcore GOP district. It went from 28.51% Mondale in 1984 to 31.27% Dukakis in 1988 to 34.89% Clinton in 1992 to 45.66% Clinton in 1996 to 50.06% Gore in 2000. Kerry did slightly worse at 49.83% in 2004 but Obama won 59% of the vote in 2008, which was the highest a democrat has gotten there since Roosevelt's 61% in 1940. The fact that it is a fast growing county helps the democrats even more.