So This Is What It Feels Like to Live in a Swing State

Robocalls, 5 glossy mailers a day, people knocking on your door. They were even at my gym the other night. Candidates coming to stump every several days. Personally, I can't remember ever having so many opportunities to go see the candidates speak. It's really a weird feeling to have the candidates pay so much attention to North Carolina which hasnt voted Dem in a presidential election in 24 years or something. As recently as 6 months, mostly everyone I know (including myself) figured NC was so red it would be ignored during the campaign.

The plain and simple fact is that NC demographics have permanently changed in the last 10-20 years. So many people have moved here from the Northeast. Combine that with the newly arrived Hispanic population and African Americans who have been here all along and I guess that gives you a swing state.

The fact that the hisorically red NC is a swing state leaning toward Obama does not bode for the Republicans.