Latest North Carolina polling numbers. I detect a slight trend.

[Buzz Clik]

[NC_Nurse]

1. Hell YEAH!!!

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Oh man

That ain't a trend, that's pure destruction.

[PM7nj]

3. Oh dear...

this is sure to make old Hilly quite bitter.

[TML]

4. Wow

That trajectory looks like the Space Shuttle taking off from the launch pad. :bounce:

[guyanakoolaid]

5. To be fair, this is the direction of most states' polls

:woohoo:

[jenmito]

6. Well, Harold Ford predicted MANY times that the winner of NC will be the Dem. nominee.

I hope he doesn't backtrack after Obama wins.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

29. hope so, but it will be first time since Carter

but we can hope.

Things are so bad, we really need decent leadership and no more
lying and pandering.

I know thats alot to hope for from our govt, but a break has
to come our way.

[jackson_dem]

46. That was the closest Ford, as DLC chair, could come to endorsing Obama without being explicit

Everybody who has following the polls knows Clinton has almost no shot in North Carolina. Obama has won the black vote in all 42 states thus far (his low is 61%--in NY. Everywhere else he gets 75+ and since Super Tuesday 80+, usually the high 80's and 90% in the last state) and will get 85-90% in NC. This is unique in that there is no deviation, no fluctuation like there is with some of Obama's other bases or Clinton's bases (women, working class whites, seniors, Latinos). You can take the 85-90% black support in NC for him to the bank. That alone would bring him to 27-30% overall. All he needs is a modicum of white support, which will not be hard to do given the postindustrial areas of NC which are full of "Starbucks" voters, and he is over the top. Anything else is gravy. Of course Ford knows all this. He is given an implicit endorsement of Obama, who he knows will almost certainly win NC, and hence he can hide behind Obama winning NC to support him. The only way Clinton could win NC, given as 42 states have shown that Obama's black support is rock solid, is to win over 70% of the white vote. She has done that in only three or four states out of 42, and she has never gotten close to the 85-90% range Obama usually is in. It is unlikely she will reach that level in NC. The only way that will happen is if Obama tanks due to smalltowngate...

[SwampG8r]

59. lotta snarks in there but you are starting to come around

[UALRBSofL]

71. I'm sorry but I like Harold Ford. Call him what you want but he is a good man

And his family name is well known in Tennessee in politics. I may not agree with everything he says but when you listen to him speak he is very knowledgeable. Frankly, when he ran for Senate he was Swiftboated by racist commercials and that was the reason he lost.

[DearAbby]

7. Slight?

hell, that looks like a gusher.

[bhikkhu]

8. K&R

[Joyce78]

9. Pollsters beware ...

I'll be 60 this year ... my husband will be 66. My mother (82) and my step-father (87), my sister (48) have decided to sit this out ... we will not vote for Obama. None of us will vote for McCain, but we certainly are not voting for Obama. Two of us in Ohio, two in Florida, and, one in Nevada. Adult children of ours in New Jersey will not vote for Barak Obama ... they have decided also if he is the nominee, they will not vote for him. It's lies upon lies ... he talks about change but he's nothing but a phony.

Typo error

[cliffordu]

B'Bye.

Say so long to what's left of your civil rights.

:puke:

[Voice for Peace]

11. sorry, hope y'all change your minds.

Too much at stake.

[PseudoIntellect]

13. Who is real, then?

He's the most genuine candidate left.

If you think Hillary is sincere all the time, then ROFL.

[JimGinPA]

14. I Wouldn't Think That Would Be Something To Be Proud Of

Congenital stupidity.

[SunsetDreams]

15. NAFTA, S-CHIP, FMLA, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Ruwanda,

Shady donors, Colombia.......


um yeah Obama sure has a lot of lies compared that list

:sarcasm:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. Then get the fuck off this website.

[Name removed]

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[greguganus]

50. Amen! n/t

[Beacool]

28. Join the crowd, there are plenty in that boat.

Myself included.

[greguganus]

49. 2500 posts, no donation....

:eyes: Like you were gonna vote for him anyway.

[juajen]

68. Donating to this web site is not a requirement. Remarking on the

poster's donation status is immaterial and shows a lack of class on your part, and a lack of DU coutesy.

[Kool Kitty]

30. Get your kids, nieces, nephews, grandkids, etc., ready to

fight in Mccain's next war. Any Democrat is better than McCain.

[IsItJustMe]

32. Well, bless your heart. Bye now.

[JVS]

52. He was endorsed by Dan Rooney!

[catgirl]

57. Congratulations

Hopefully the grandchildren will break the chain.

[comrade snarky]

61. I've never said this to another person on DU

But Fuck You. I'm sick of this fucking attitude.

Don't vote for the Democrat in the election? Then shut the fuck up. Don't bitch. Don't complain about McCain. Just sit there with you holier than thou attitude and don't say a fucking word.

If voting for your candidate is more important than helping this country get through this republican built crisis then just sit there withholding with your vote like the spoiled child you are.

It's obvious you care more about your own ego than this country.

[my3boyz]

65. What? Because he is black? Of course you would not admit that. Barack does not need

votes from you or your family!

[meow mix]

67. blood of dead people in iraq is on your hands then

get the fuck out of here

[yardwork]

70. Is it because Obama is black that you won't support him?

That's nothing to be proud of.

[Voice for Peace]

10. bah, you call that a trend?

LOL slight

[Zachstar]

63. Somewhat :P

[cliffordu]

12. This is your campaign. This is your campaign on bitterness

:rofl:

[SunsetDreams]

16. Beautiful!

President Obama on the way!

[bilgewaterbill]

17. I've been studying these charts for a while now and I can see a trend, too.

It looks like the lines are heading for groups of dots with the same color.

[blonndee]

20. LOL!

Very cute.

[bilgewaterbill]

21. ...

:blush:

[Zachstar]

51. O RLY?!

[RichardRay]

64. Sheeesh, how could a reasonably intelligent adult get it so WRONG?

The dots are attracted to the lines. The dots are just little followers, it's the lines that make the decisions!!

:-) (just in case...)

[Scurrilous]

18. LOL

:thumbsup:

[grantcart]

23. hmmmmmmmmm

[grantcart]

24. and

[Beacool]

25. Oh, big surprise!!!

Same deographics as in SC, MS, GA, etc.

:eyes:

[JBoy]

27. Oh crap. I wanted this one to count!

[kmsarvis]

34. I guess black people aren't as important as undereducated white people. n/t

[Beacool]

35. Oh yeah, it's ALL about the issues when they consistently vote

between 80% to 91% for one candidate.

Whatever...............


:eyes:

[kmsarvis]

37. you know african americans aren't the only demographic that goes overwhelmingly for Obama.

[Beacool]

40. In the southern states it is the majority of the Dem. vote.

Even though these states will go Repug in the GE as they usually do.

[jackson_dem]

47. No other demographic goes 80-91% for Obama in 41 of 42 states (NY, he won 61-37)

To expect NC to be any different is nonsense being promoted by folks who are setting the bar to a level they know Clinton cannot clear due to this. There is no state where Obama loses blacks. He lost Arkansas in a landslide yet still got the same black support he does everywhere. This is a very unique phenomenon. Obama's support among his other groups, youth, and affluent voters fluctuates by state (as has the voting pattern of every other group. There are trends of groups tending to favor a candidate but nothing like a group voting 80-91% in 41 of 42 states for the same candidate). He usually wins them but sometimes he doesn't. For instance in PA he is losing young voters and about tied with affluent voters. The key difference is he has never gotten 80-91% of the youth or affluent vote, aside from perhaps the Idaho caucus where he won 79% overall. In a primary? Never anywhere close to it.

[Zachstar]

62. I see right through that and you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

[otohara]

36. First Black First Lady

shouldn't be so behind.

Then I remembered what the first Black President said about the first real half black candidate.

[Buzz Clik]

41. That is correct. The same demographics that Clinton has stated does not matter.

Clever strategy.

[cali]

43. yes, we know that hillfans think it's disgraceful that

AAs have the vote. Too bad for you that all us white people in VT, ME, IA, CO, Idaho, etc, think hill sucks too.

[jackson_dem]

48. Mitt Romney won all the states with significant Mormon populations

Ask Obamites why. Will they say it is bigoted to point the obvious out? Romney got 91% in Utah. McSame got 5%. Fluke?

[Independent-Voter]

58. Have you ever actually stepped foot in NC?

Another fucking idiot supporter for Veruca I see.

[JBoy]

26. Bill Clinton on North Carolina, Mar 26th

"This whole thing could come down to what you all decide in North Carolina,"

[liberaldem4ever]

31. K & R!!

[aquarius dawning]

33. OMG, I never would have guessed that Obama could win a state with 22% AA population.

I wonder if he can win the Hawaii and Nebraska caucuses too? ::shrug:

[jackson_dem]

53. It is just a coincidence he has won all the states with large black populations?

With overwhelming, as in 80-91%, black support in each of them, just as Mitt Romney coincidentally won all the states with significant Mormon populations, including winning Utah with 91% to McSame's 5%. Are we not supposed to notice the obvious? JFK got the support of four out of five Catholic voters in 1960. Why was that? What difference on the issues were there between him and Nixon?

[goldcanyonaz]

38. Imagine that.

[Buzz Clik]

42. Imagine this: President Obama.

[Zachstar]

45. Will be reality if we continue to work hard!

Phonebank!!

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/phonebankmap/

[XemaSab]

39. Like the Clenis on Viagra

:hide:

[Zachstar]

44. A slight trend, For the space shuttle!

:woohoo:

[Zachstar]

54. Hmm the Obama years could see the rise of the grassroots DIRECT launcher so!

http://launchcomplexmodels.com/Direct/media/images/orion_cev/large/DIRECT_CLV_T+043.jpg

http://launchcomplexmodels.com/Direct/media/images/orion_cev/large/DIRECT_CLV_T+127.jpg

Looks like Obama support is going into space! Heh!!

BTW Direct is a real idea BTW.

http://www.directlauncher.com/

[berni_mccoy]

55. LOL! Slight trend. K&R!

[Vinca]

56. North Carolina duck hunters for Obama!

:rofl:

[Zachstar]

60. Haha!!

Reminds me of that old NES game!

[saltpoint]

66. Tar Heel Dems will choose Obama on May 6th.

[meow mix]

69. K&R hillary diane is toast

woot