BREAKING: Obama Campaign Staff calling NC for OBAMA!!!

[Hope And Change]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/6/113414/205/275/655684

[maseman]

1. YES!

Kay Hagan, Perdue and OBAMA! Thanks NC!

[ncgrits]

3. You are MORE that welcome!!!! I can't stop grinning!! nt

[alsame]

18. You NCers did great - got rid of Dole AND turned blue!!

[ej510]

2. Yessir!!!!!!!!!!!

[valerief]

4. Holy Keyriced! Great news!!!!

[cwydro]

5. FANtastic!

I was born and grew up in NC and now live in Florida.

To see both these states go blue makes me ecstatic!

YES!

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Is it a mandate yet?

:shrug:

[Wednesdays]

21. Why can't Obama close the deal?

:shrug:

[Cha]

7. WowWowWow! I was talking

to my son last night on the phone about the states and didn't realize we didn't have North Carolina yet and couldn't find any confirmation..only that it was so freaking CLOSE!@

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!1111111111!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank Everybody who worked so hard in North Carolina..James Taylor that means you too!!:loveya::bounce::party::kick:

[Progressive_In_NC]

8. The funny thing is, without the Libertarian on the ballot, it stays Red

He took away just enough votes from McCain to turn the vote. hehe.

[Cha]

11. Oh well, it's a start..and I think once a lot

of people have to give an Obama Biden admin a chance they may see some light.

I use to live in Asheville in '70's..so beautiful and I know it's progressive now in WNC..is that in Buncombe County?

[Wednesdays]

22. Grapes are often sour, aren't they? nt

[Alcibiades]

23. same thought here when results on the jumbotron in durham

hard to say, tho, as not all are repubs, the party is a bunch of diehards who always vote libertarian.

[Alcibiades]

12. Don't Forget Junior Johnson and Andy Griffith

But, most importantly, our local volunteers and the many smart young staff from the Obama campaign.

:patriot:

[Cha]

15. That's right! Love Love Love to

all!

[matchstick]

9. WOW! Florida virginia and now North Carolina!

[ccharles000]

10. I am glad I voted for Obama here in NC

[Alcibiades]

13. Every change crew in ste state deserves credit

I worked at our local change crew office on Guess Road in North Durham.

We had a total of 115 volunteers canvassing, hanging door hangers and phonebanking, not counting all the poll runners and many other folks. We were one of (I think) five staging locations in Durham.

At 2:00, they called to tell us to shut down and send our volunteers elsewhere because we had exceeded all our goals.

In the end, we did not carry the three precincts in North Durham with which we were initially charged. These precincts have typically voted Republican, but for Democrats in things like the governor's race and for the House. But we won North Durham MASSIVELY!!!!!

How can that be? Because of the EARLY VOTE!!! The data show that we lost 37, 44 and 45 by margins of 144, 88 and 110 votes on election day. (Note that all percentages are expressed as shares of the two-party vote.) In 2004, the northern onestop early voting location was at Northern High. They recorded 5212 votes for John Kerry and 6469 votes for George Bush--so Bush won by 55% and a margin of 1257 votes. This year, the North Regional Library onestop location recorded 10253 votes for
Obama and only 6965 for McCain, so Obama won by 59.54% (OK call it 60%) and a whopping margin of 3288. In other words, WE TURNED NORTH DURHAM BLUE! And not some shitty powder blue, either, but a deep rich shade of blue.

A massive 14% swing, and another 3,000 votes added to Obama's NC margin. Considering the closeness of the election, it is fair to say that every precinct we worked--not just every precinct we won, but every precinct we worked and shrank McCain's margin, was decisive in NC. maybe it did not matter for the electoral vote, but I can tell you as a native North Carolinian that turning Jesse Helms' home state, now the 10th largest in the union, blue is huge.

[ErinBerin84]

14. yea, they're calling it on MSNBC now.

[budkin]

16. It just keeps getting better and better!

[ncliberal]

17. Yes! I just heard it on WRAL, too! nt

[Mira]

19. Kicking it to the Greatest

I am so excited. My State went blue.
The Moral Majority has become real.

[Triana]

20. WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!

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