North Carolina: Color the Tar Heels Federal Red and State Blue

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  • Charles Prysby

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.2005.26.0.185-201

Abstract

The 2004 elections in North Carolina resembled those in 1996 and 2000 in many ways. The candidates changed in a number of races, and some of the outcomes were different, but nevertheless there was a fundamental similarity among these three election years. Republicans carried the state by comfortable margins in all three presidential elections, and they had an advantage in each of the congressional elections as well. Even so, Democrats won all three gubernatorial elections and maintained control of state government. Thus, North Carolina in 2004 was once again both red and blue, depending on whether one looked at federal or at state election results.

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2005-07-01

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