With the GOP likely to keep both houses due to gerrymandering, could Dalton use this as an argument for divided government (i.e. split control)?
Yes, that would seem to be a good case he could make. Pat McCrory ran as the moderate who could work with either side in 2008, but now he's Mr. Conservative. He's kinda like NC's own version of Mitt Romney.
It seems like, from what he's said so far, he'll do a more effective job of working with the assembly than Perdue. Perdue was right to veto the budget two years in a row, but I don't think it would be good to have go through that every year of the next decade.
He better run as his moderate self in the general though since you have to appeal to the center. I know McCory had to run to the right in the primary obviously.
