Guys, large parts of NC-01 and Eastern NC is flooded right now. Polling will not be accurate in this state. Also Fayetteville and Lumberton have a lot of flooding as well.
The question is in what direction it's biasing the polls.
Those are Democratic areas, so it might be undemining Cooper. At the same time McCrory was "in charge" of a crisis situation providing a temporary bounce.
I thought Eastern NC was Republican?
Depends on what you define as Eastern. Here's the 2014 Senate Map (NOT ATLAS COLORS):
