NC-08: Obama tops McCain by 4 in district Bush won twice with 54%

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The order and placement on a ballot for the general election is rarely set earlier than a couple of months before the election (I don't have exact numbers for NC, but it sounds right).  After all, NC just finished its primary runoffs a couple of weeks ago.

In South Carolina at least, the order was set well before the nominees were even established.  For 2008 it will be:

Green
Republican
Libertarian
Petition
Democrat
Constitution
Working Families
Independence

With Labor probably added at the end since it's a newly registered party. (I'm not certain if it was added before or after the Independence Party was shuffled from the top to the bottom.)  The order for 2010 will be the same as 2008 except that the Green Party will be moved from the top to the bottom.  Assuming that these same parties all remain registered and that the regulations for ballot order are unchanged, the Democrats will next be at the top of the lists of candidates in the 2016 election cycle.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Why Barr first again?  Anyway, PPP is getting close to deserving the (D) beside it.  In fact, I would probably do it, but I abhor the whining it would engender.

Kissell is about where I would expect him, otoh...

Why not poll Barr? I mean he is on the ballot in Nov.

Simply listing him at all along with the other two candidates gives his name extra weight that it simply will not have on the ballot.  I mean, why not list the Constitution Party candidate?  The Green candidate?  Socialist Worker candidate?

Right now Barr is the only other candidate besides McCain and Obama on the ballot in North Carolina.  Given North Carolina's ballot access laws, it is highly likely those three will be the only candidates on the ballot.  (North Carolina law requires a petition signed by 2% of the last gubernatorial vote, 69,734 signatures.)  Including only Barr of the minor candidates in the question is the right approach for North Carolina.