(01-13-2018 10:07 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(01-13-2018 09:06 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(01-13-2018 07:29 AM)solohawks Wrote:  

(01-12-2018 11:10 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(01-12-2018 10:09 PM)bullet Wrote:  Since 1980 in presidential elections:
Republicans 9
Democrats 1

Its a red state, just not deep red.

NC Governors- Jim Hunt (D) 1977-1985, Jim Martin ® 1985-1993, Jim Hunt (D) 1993-2001, Mike Easley (D) 2001-2009, Bev Perdue (D) 2009-2013, Pat McCrory ® 2013-2017, Roy Cooper (D) present

So since 1977 there have been 6 governors (with one serving twice) and 2 of them were Republicans. One of them, McCrory is the only one to lose reelection. One Democrat, Perdue decided not to run for reelection.

NC Senators since 1974, Jesse Helms ®, Robert Morgan (D), John East/James Broyhill (East died in office) ®, Terry Sanford (D), Lauch Faircloth ®, Libby Dole ®, John Edwards (D), Richard Burr ®, Kay Hagan (D), Thom Tillis ®

So since 1974 we have gone back and forth with the Republicans winning 11 elections and the Democrats have won 5. Of the 11 won by the Republicans 4 of them were by Jesse Helms. Faircloth was a lifelong Democrat that changed parties when he felt he had been slighted by Sanford who according to Faircloth had promised to step aside for him to run. He beat Sanford in the general election. Many of these races had razor thin margins, the Helms / Hunt race being especially memorable.

I'd say NC is purple.

Many of the older democrats listed were of the Blue Dog persuasion. They have been runoff by the modern Democratic party. Bev rode the Obama coattails to a win. Cooper won because of HB2 fatigue. Hagan won because Dole made a boneheaded move in her campaign and had the reputation of a "carpetbagger"

Dems have won off defensive fumble recoveries the GOP has made not offensive successful campaigns.

In 2010, despite a Dem gerrymander, the GOP won a supermajority in both State houses. If we were a purple state that wouldn't have happened

I disagree. Hunt, Morgan, Easley, Perdue, Edwards, Sanford, Cooper and Hagan none of them were "Blue Dogs". Lauch Faircloth could be considered one but he switched parties before he ran and won that senate seat.

2010 was an off year election with a Democratic President. That always favors the party out of power. It was more importantly the high water mark of the Tea Party movement. Democratic gerrymandering in NC was never as extensive as what the GOP did in the aftermath of their takeover. They took gerrymandering to a fine art with the advances made in statistical analysis and computer generated models.

That's cause the dems have less to work with because their are more federal level R voters