Cooper lead grows beyond recount threshold

[mnhtnbb]

Source: WRAL.com

Raleigh, N.C. — Attorney General Roy Cooper's lead grew to 10,257 votes over Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday, putting the race for North Carolina governor beyond the point where McCrory could automatically demand a recount.

All but six of North Carolina's 100 counties have completed their reporting from the Nov. 8 election. Cooper's lead will change when those counties report and could conceivably retreat back under the 10,000 mark. But throughout the county canvass process, Cooper's lead has steadily grown.

"Roy Cooper's lead has now grown to over 10,000 votes. Game over. It’s time for Governor McCrory to concede. It's clear there is no path to victory for Governor McCrory. It’s time for Governor McCrory to accept the election results and respect the will of the voters," said Trey Nix, Cooper's campaign manager.

The 10,000-vote mark is critical. If a statewide candidate loses by more fewer than 10,000 votes, he or she has the automatic right to a statewide recount. McCrory has said he will seek a statewide recount if the State Board of Elections doesn't order a recount in Durham County. If the margin remains above 10,000 votes, that potential bargaining power is undercut.

Read more: http://www.wral.com/cooper-lead-grows-beyond-recount-threshold-/16292505/

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I wonder if Cooper will have to call out the National Guard to evict McCrory from the Governor's Mansion next month?

[mnhtnbb]

1. See the results on the NC Board of Elections website

http://er.ncsbe.gov/?election_dt=11/08/2016&county_id=0&office=COS&contest=0

I hope Cooper has good security. The race for Lt. Governor is separate and the Republican won it by 300,000 votes--
which is a really giant fu*k you to McCrory-- but makes me hope that Cooper will have excellent security watching his back.

[Ford_Prefect]

2. Why stop with the Mansion? The State Legislature is just down the street. Arrest them all!

[barbtries]

3. well if he does,

i hope he does!
asshole deserves it.

[wishstar]

4. Interesting how absentee ballots, provisionals gave Cooper almost 5,000 more vote lead

Maybe we NC Dems can finally celebrate if only McCrory would end his desperate shenanigans soon. R's don't want us to have any power whatsoever but fortunately Dem Josh Stein also won Atty Gen. by enough margin for no contest so Cooper will have a strong backup behind him going forward.

[LisaM]

6. Good.

People underestimate how important these other races (AG, Secretary of State) can be in the long run.

[brush]

8. Funny how Cooper, a Dem, won for governor of NC but Trump won for president

I would think voters who voted repug for president would've vote repug for governor — unless there was some hacking going on somewhere.

Trump the repug "won" North Carolina but McCrory the repug lost in North Carolina.

H-u-u-u-u-h?

Something's fishy.

Is that just me thinking that?

[mnhtnbb]

11. No, McCrory has pissed off more than a few traditional Republicans--

especially teachers and women-- who are more liberal on social issues.

The current Lt. Governor--a Republican--won by 300,000 votes, which really rubs McCrory's nose in it.
There had to have been a lot of Republicans who voted against McCrory because he is so disliked.

It does make me nervous, though, that people didn't have the sense to also vote for the Dem for Lt. Governor
to protect Cooper's back.

[wishstar]

15. Several people I know said they just wanted change at top positions- R for Pres, D for Governor

"Just to shake things up." There are many voters who are very simplistic. Some of them didn't want McCrory simply because they blamed him for HB2 loss of sporting events and revenue and pushing toll roads, but didn't seem to understand the dangerous loss of checks and balances they were giving R's on the Federal level by voting for Trump and/or didn't care due to their Hillary hate and misogny.

[hughee99]

16. Massachusetts has had a republican governor for most

Of the last 25 years and is always overwhelmingly blue when it comes to presidential voting.

[jmowreader]

19. A little hip pocket training on Tar Heel politics is in order

North Carolina isn't most states. People voting for the Republican president and the Democratic everything else is so common there, the "straight ticket" vote doesn't cast a vote for president. You have to do that separately. They print on the ballot that this is how it works, hang up signs in the polls, put it in voter guides.

[mnhtnbb]

23. The Republicans eliminated straight ticket voting in NC

No more straight ticket ballot options.

[jmowreader]

24. Which shows you how long it's been since I lived there

Thanks for the update.

[yardwork]

20. McCrory did several things that turned Republicans against him.

He pushed for toll roads, for instance. Apparently this outraged certain otherwise reliably red communities. They still voted for Trump, of course.

[Cha]

27. Interesting.. thank you, yardwork. My sister just moved

to Asheville with her daughter and granddaughter, in August, from New York.

[patricia92243]

30. He has made the state lose millions of dollars. Everybody knows that.

In one short term it is amazing the trouble he has caused. The people he scared away (and their big bucks) will never be back - so the harm will go on and on.

More of him would bankrupt the state.

[Cha]

28. Great to hear, wow! TY wishstar!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

[wryter2000]

7. You go, NC

Fabulous news! K&effingR

[ReverendHeretic]

9. This might be a mixed message.

It great for that state that that teabagger loses.
BUT
How do you think Drumpf will respond? By a high ranking appointment to a sensitive position? Where he will not be constrained by a legislature?

[mnhtnbb]

12. I suspect Trump will not be interested in the "loser" McCrory.

He'll have to go back to whoring for Duke Energy.

[Ford_Prefect]

14. McCrory belongs to Art Pope. He's a genuinely stupid tool. He wasn't going anywhere beyond Governor.

Duke Power is the only place that will want him. Unless he gets to be the face of a national HB2 campaign (Truly scary thought).

[ReverendHeretic]

17. Sarah Palin lost the Veep office.

[SoCalMusicLover]

10. Funny, They Did Not Hack This Race

So for Governor....Democrat by a wide margin.

For Senate & President, the opposite.

I'm sure there is a rational explanation.

[mnhtnbb]

13. not a wide margin--it was only 4700 votes on election night--and has widened

with the counting of provisional ballots.

[LisaL]

21. Wide margin? What are you talking about? It's less than 0.5% margin.

Republican still hasn't conceded to this day.

[rpannier]

22. Very Unpopular Governor

This was more he lost than people were voting for someone

[paleotn]

18. Would love to see McDumbass

...and spouse tossed out on their Rethuglican asses.

[BigDemVoter]

25. Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha

Sore Loser McCrory will need to have the sheriff come and dump his shit out on the street the way they do poor people who don't have powerful friends.

[Cha]

26. Probably.. knowing these rethugs. I'm so happy for you in NC!

My sister and her daughter and granddaughter just moved to Asheville in August from New York.

I cannot wait to post something about Cooper winning on my FB page when it happens for real!

Thank you, mnhtnbb

[saltpoint]

29. But everyone, think how sad we will all be

if it is certified that Cooper won and McCrory lost.

Not.