NC: Republicans Burr and McCrory trailing Dem. Opponents

[RandySF]

Down the ballot, incumbent Republican Sen. Richard Burr is trailing Democratic challenger Deborah Ross in North Carolina by two points among registered voters, 46 percent to 44 percent. (Last month, Burr was ahead by seven points, 48 percent to 41 percent.).

In North Carolina's gubernatorial race, incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory is down by seven points to Democratic challenger Roy Cooper, 51 percent to 44 percent. (In July, it was Cooper 49 percent, McCrory 45 percent.)


http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/polls-clinton-running-table-key-battlegrounds-n629136

[brooklynite]

1. We also have a strong candidate for Attorney General: Josh Stein

https://ballotpedia.org/Josh_Stein

[karmaqueen]

2. Please let this hold up!!!

That group that got into office is the worst thing that has happened to this state in a long time! We need to get rid of them all and fire Ilario Pantano too!

[deurbano]

4. Please-oh-please-oh-please!!!!

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Roy Cooper will win the governor's seat. Living here, I'm almost certain of it. People like Cooper.

McCrory has been a disaster for us.

[CobaltBlue]

5. RandySF—I anticipated this.

I posted on this site that North Carolina has been on a trend of electing U.S. senators, in presidential electon years, from the same party which carries the state at the presidential level. It began in 1972 and played out as well in 1980, 1984, 1992, 1996, 2004, and 2008. (All of them were Republican on both counts until the Democratic pickups of Barack Obama and Kay Hagan, who unseated Elizabeth Dole, in 2008.) It has been a coattails’ effect. And if this pattern continues, here in 2016, and Hillary Clinton wins a Democratic pickup to carry North Carolina, incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr can thank Donald Trump.