11:42AM Nov 07, 2008 in category 
by George W Frink
Conservative Christian political leaders like Focus on the Family's James Dobson tried to explain it away, but the "God gap" that was twice important to Republican George W. Bush's victory, shifted toward Democrat Barack Obama.
08:10AM Nov 07, 2008 in category 
by George W Frink
NBC News and the Associated Press yesterday officially decreed what most of us have known since late Tuesday night: North Carolina's electoral votes go to President-elect Barack Obama.
Obama is the first Democratic presidential candidate to win North Carolina since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
This Democratic victory swept down the ticket, electing Bev Perdue the state's first woman governor, putting Democrat Kay Hagan in the U.S. Senate and otherwise substantially reversing the 1972 landslide victory of Richard Nixon which for decades wove the Republicanism of Jesse Helms into our state's political fabric.
North Carolina State Board of Elections presidential vote map
Whether you're a celebrating Democrat or a Republican who is wondering how to rebuild, it is a new day.
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