**BREAKING*** North Carolina has just been called for Obama

[cali]

just heard it. no link yet.

Edited to add link:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijDA5bgxiHlTvS_r-SSjskS1Tq1wD949IA080

[thewiseguy]

1. AP has just called it for Obama

[loyalkydem]

11. Yea

The state of my birth has turned Blue

[SharonRB]

2. Woo hoo!

:woohoo:

[mmonk]

3. Just heard it on TV local news. We're blue.

[cali]

4. Congratulations! And congrats on your new Senator too.

[mmonk]

9. Thanks. Kay gave Liddy her ruby red slippers so she can click her heels together

and return to Kansas.

[beyurslf]

33. What! We don't want her. It took us decades to get rid of them.

[mmonk]

44. Don't worry. She's retired.

:-)

[GreenInNC]

62. from my adopted state to my home state

she is all yours and good riddance (not that she was ever here in NC)

[Sheets of Easter]

5. Good! For a while there, I was scared.

:P

[TwilightGardener]

6. Sprinkles on the icing on my cake!

(already used "icing on the cake" yesterday)

[rdublue]

7. FABULOUS!!!!! I live in a Blue state, I live in a Blue state, nana nana boo boo

:applause:

[liberalhistorian]

8. Thank you NC, and welcome to

the "real" America!!! :evilgrin:

And it's especially sweet because they kicked that worthless do-nothing legacy senator Dole out!!!

[Bonobo]

10. I called every state correctly.

-Just sayin'.

364 baby!

[RiverStone]

12. Amazing --- Obama has worked to open up rusty ol doors down south!

And let in some beautiful blue!!! :) :woohoo:

[Jennicut]

13. So freaking awesome!!!!

NC is now BLUE! I never thought I would see that, I hoped but wow.

[ErinBerin84]

14. awesome!

Thanks so much to the people of NC who worked to make this happen.



Also, this means that the slimey Mark Halperin's election prediction was wrong! (though, he did say that he thought the 348 was the floor and not the ceiling).

[Maven]

15. L A N D S L I D E, 364 - 174

Congratulations NC!!!

[Sebass1271]

16. link please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Larry in KC]

17. Link?

[Maven]

20. It's up on msnbc.com now

No article yet

[abburdlen]

39. Almost there...

15 EV for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama
Democratic Governor Bev Perdue
Democratic Senator Kay Hagan
We just need to kick Richard Burr to the curb in 2010 and we'll be there

[mvd]

18. Congrats, North Carolina

You are now a blue state! K&R

[brazos121200]

19. Where did you hear it?

[woo me with science]

21. Yay! nt

[Ian David]

22. We are no longer divided into Blue States and Red States...

... We are now Blue States and Nazi States.

What??

WHAT??

Oh, sorry.

I forgot.

[Kahuna]

23. Yearrrrrrrrgh!

:bounce:

[Terran]

24. Congrats NC'ers!

You were all saying it would happen and it did!

[Sebass1271]

25. couldn't find the link...

[cali]

27. just added it to the OP

[Larry in KC]

26. FOUND A LINK

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/POLITICS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME

[Breeze54]

32. Thank You!! (I've been searching too!)

:hi:

---------------

Nov 6, 12:14 PM EST

Obama adds symbolic NC victory to White House win

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PRESIDENT_NORTH_CAROLINA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-11-06-12-14-00

By MIKE BAKER and BARBARA RODRIGUEZ
Associated Press Writers

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) --

President-elect Obama has won North Carolina, a symbolic triumph in a state that hadn't voted for a Democrat in more than a generation.

The Associated Press declared Obama the winner Thursday after canvassing counties in North Carolina to determine the number of outstanding provisional ballots.

That survey found that there are not enough remaining ballots for Republican John McCain to close a 13,693-vote deficit.

North Carolina's 15 electoral votes brings Obama's total to 364 - nearly 100 more than necessary to win the White House. Missouri is the only state that remains too close to call.

Obama's win in North Carolina was the first for a Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter won the state in 1976.

:woohoo:

[Clio the Leo]

28. woooohoooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nt

[tosh]

29. 364! 364!

And congratulations, North Carolina, on your blueness!

[loudsue]

30. YAY!!!!! That's us!! Now....is it Carolina blue or DUKE blue??

I think it's the DEEPER shade...I think it's DUKE blue!!!

:bounce: :woohoo: :applause:


We're BLUE!!!!!

Dem governor (first woman, too! )

Dem Senator!

DEM FOR PRESIDENT!!

Blue skies! Nothing but blue skies from now on!

[musicblind]

48. Carolina Blue all the way! :-P

UNC Team > Duke Team

:P

[loudsue]

51. Duke blue.

:kick: Look at the map of the red states & blue states! You don't see any Carolina blue!

:) :hi:

[musicblind]

60. It may be Duke blue on the maps

but it will always have Carolina Blue in its blood. ;)

[Blue For You]

31. Damn, it's about time. I'm a blue-stater!!!!

:party: It's party time!

[Breeze54]

34. Congratulations, Blue For You "Blue Stater" and Welcome to DU !!

:woohoo: :bluebox: :toast: :hi:

[SIMPLYB1980]

35. KICK ASS!!!

:woohoo:

[Maven]

36. NBC now projects Obama wins NC, changed map here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553

[rebel with a cause]

55. We have got all of the west coast and almost all of the east coast.

Most of the mid-west, well what I call the mid-west except for Missouri. What remains red is most of the south, the prairie states (except Illinois) and the cowboy states.

I don't really call Illinois a prairie state although it is called the prairie state. Part of the state is prairie (the middle section) but the further south you get in the state, the hillier it is.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[mollymongold]

37. WOOO

[Undercurrent]

38. Deeply satisfying!

Another blue nibble into the South. Watch out Dixie! The times they are a changin'!

[dascientist]

40. WHY CANT OBAMA CLOSE THE DEAL? (J/K)

[deoxyribonuclease]

41. Congrats NC!

[nc4bo]

42. YAY - I love it more and more I hear it!! Skinner, may we have a blue NC state avatar now??

Even a light blue one would be fabulous!!

[eshfemme]

43. North Carolina, motherfuckers!

:headbang: Hell Yeah!

[bushisanidiot]

45. The Chickens.. they're comin' home to roost.

SUCK IT, REPUKES!!

WE'RE TAKING THE SOUTH BACK!

[ailsagirl]

46. Another link

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/11/ap_obama_wins_n.html

[mmonk]

52. I like this quote from the article:

"So Obama has not just redrawn the map. He's printed an entirely new one."

[ailsagirl]

54. YESSSS... I'm just basking in the media's reaction to this event!!

It's ABOUT TIME!!!!!

:bounce:

[ailsagirl]

47. KICK

[musicblind]

49. I told you so! I told you so! I told you so!

People made such nasty comments about me when I said NC WAS going to go to Obama. I said it RIGHT after the primaries ended. Heck, I even got PM's telling me how NC wasn't even in play.


Well guess what! I was fucking RIGHT and everyone who called me names, told me they were from Georgia and NC was just like Georgia, who told me that I didn't know what I was talking about because I was only 26 but they were adults and they knew from experience... to all those idiots who said NC would NEVER EVER go blue...

I WAS FUCKING RIGHT! HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES!

NC = BLUE FOR OBAMA.

[mnhtnbb]

58. Me, too! I've been hollering for years that NC could go blue and

not many folks from this board believed it.

Showed them, didn't we?!

:hi:

[musicblind]

59. Yes we did!

I am so proud of our state but especially proud of the people IN our state who worked HARD to turn out every vote.

Chapel Hill is a beautiful place btw.

[Demi_Babe]

50. WOOOOHOOOOOO

[anneboleyn]

53. Go Blue, Blue Devils and Tarheels! Congrats, I used to live in NC and this is a cool development.

[mdmc]

56. nice

[DesertRat]

57. NC turns blue and gives Dole the boot!

:woohoo:

[marions ghost]

61. whew

thanks y'all who worked so hard for it. You know who you are.

:toast: :toast: :toast: