NC is clearly Toss-Up / Tilt DEM based upon the data and evidence presented thus far in terms of both Ntl and Statewide polling.
Sure maybe Obama outperformed in NC in '08, and perhaps Biden might be under-performing Obama '08 numbers and margins.
Emerson is likely not the best pollster when it comes to the Tar Heel State.
At this point, more than willing to throw down a $50 bill odds bet when it comes to NC in 2020.
Still, this is not the Racist Grandpa and dog-whistles of NC of yore...
Textile Mill jobs and Furniture Assembly Jobs of Western Carolinas might well have been sacrificed upon the sacred DEM-PUB Neo-Liberal alter of "Free Trade".
Still those screwed over the most don't appear to be fish snapping at the Trump bait off the fishing piers, docks, and fishing boats rolling around the Barrier Islands.
Is the man in the picture supposed to be Jesse Helms?