2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

[Mulberry Heel]

Yeah Union, Gaston, and Cabarrus are the three Charlotte-adjacent counties to watch IMO. About 295k votes cast there in 2016, 365k votes cast there in 2020, and could conceivably exceed 450k there this year. If Kamala can improve Biden's performance by 5%+ in all three (35% in Gaston, 44% in Cabarrus, 37% in Union) that could be something like 25k+ additional votes in places where Trump desperately needs to offset the Dem urban majorities. He can't offset what will probably be something like a 700k+ deficit in the Triangle, Triad, and Mecklenburg with rural counties alone.

That's really what has allowed Democrats to finally break through in Georgia. For decades the suburban counties around Atlanta voted Republican, and so it was a reliably red state most of the time. But over the past decade or so those suburban counties have turned blue, and that, combined with the heavy Democratic vote in Atlanta and other larger Georgia cities - Savannah, Columbus, Macon, etc. - has made Democrats competitive to the point that they now can actually win the state in at least some election years.

For Democrats to finally break through and win NC that same process has to happen here - some of these suburban counties around Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham and the Piedmont Triad need to become more blue - not necessarily have a Democratic majority, but at least move from voting 60 to 70 percent Republican to 55 percent Republican. That would make a huge difference in terms of Democrats winning the state.

 

[rodoheel]

The other one is Johnston County. So long ruby red, it's been growing more than any other triangle county. What used to be rural even 8 years ago is now PACKED with subdivisions and apartments.

I'm less familiar with some of those outlying Triangle suburbs. That sounds like a good one to watch too. Biden did about 2% better there in 2020 than Hillary did in 2016.

 

[dukeofhoops]

That's really what has allowed Democrats to finally break through in Georgia. For decades the suburban counties around Atlanta voted Republican, and so it was a reliably red state most of the time. But over the past decade or so those suburban counties have turned blue, and that, combined with the heavy Democratic vote in Atlanta and other larger Georgia cities - Savannah, Columbus, Macon, etc. - has made Democrats competitive to the point that they now can actually win the state in at least some election years.

For Democrats to finally break through and win NC that same process has to happen here - some of these suburban counties around Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham and the Piedmont Triad need to become more blue - not necessarily have a Democratic majority, but at least move from voting 60 to 70 percent Republican to 55 percent Republican. That would make a huge difference in terms of Democrats winning the state.

Union has been been exploding in population it feels like the last few years with all the housing developments and now apartment complexes sprouting up.

 

[4thgenheel]

That rant sounds like a rant from someone who is young and doesn't yet understand these things.

spoken from a place of privilege.

lots of people aren't straight, white males and cannot in good conscience maintain relationships with or associate with people who actively harm them.

minorities and members of the lgbtq+ community are perfectly justified in cutting off contact with hard right wingers and it has nothing to do with youthfulness or a lack or understanding.

we're talking about massive chasms between viewpoints on fundamental human rights and dignity, not disagreements on tax policy or safety nets.

 

[grimes70]

Carter-Finley and the RBC Center have enough trouble filling up to watch the usual losers who play there

Lenovo Ctr home to Hurricanes havee been sellingnout or close fir a couple years.

Now those other yahoos who call it home are a whole itger story.

 

[SnoopRob]

spoken from a place of privilege.

lots of people aren't straight, white males and cannot in good conscience maintain relationships with or associate with people who actively harm them.

minorities and members of the lgbtq+ community are perfectly justified in cutting off contact with hard right wingers and it has nothing to do with youthfulness or a lack or understanding.

we're talking about massive chasms between viewpoints on fundamental human rights and dignity, not disagreements on tax policy or safety nets.

I don't think anyone is suggesting folks should maintain relationships which actively harm them.

I think what Sooner is talking about is the idea that Dem voters who have MAGA relatives should be able to convince their relatives to not be MAGA. There's simply no way to do this that we're aware (and we've certainly tried) and the only other option is for many to blow up all of their relationships with family by being the obnoxious uncle that can't talk about anything other than politics.

I've mentioned on the thread on here before about personal relationships affected by MAGA that my mom and I don't discuss politics as it is likely the only way for us to maintain a relationship. It's not because I haven't tried to discuss politics with her, but those discussions inevitably end with some combination of her crying, screaming, or stomping off in a huff & us not speaking for some period of time. If I were to repeatedly try to discuss politics with her to attempt change her mind, the result wouldn't be that she'd actually make any changes to her political views, it would be that she and I wouldn't speak anymore & she'd then blame liberals for costing her a relationship with her son.

My mom has some loose relationships with racial/ethnic minorities and we have an LGBTQ+ relative in our family. She is kind to those folks in her day to day interactions...but she also fully believes that, as groups, those folks should be second-class citizens with less rights than she enjoys. And if you made her choose between those beliefs and her friends/family members, she'd choose her beliefs and see herself as being discriminated against for her beliefs. And there's nothing that any of us can really do to change her mind about that.

 

[1moretimeagain]

 

[nycfan]

Trump is going to get slaughtered in Mecklenburg, the Triangle, and Guilford/Forsyth. He will largely dominate rural NC, with the exception of Northeastern NC with large black populations. First step is we need urban turnout to be better than rural turnout. Beyond that, where I'd be looking for bellwethers for which way NC is likely to lean are New Hanover County (slight Dem margin last election, after going roughly 50/45 for Trump in 2016), Cumberland County (60/40 in Biden's favor last election, which was bluer than in 2016) and the red-leaning Charlotte suburbs (not sure how to measure precisely but probably somewhere around 60/40 in Trump's favor in 2020). If Kamala can maintain or grow margins in New Hanover and Cumberland, while winning over white women in those Charlotte suburbs, she's going to be in great shape. But if any of those counties trend redder than in 2020, it's a bad sign for Kamala.

We need better turnout tomorrow than we’ve seen from Mecklenburg in early voting, though. At 54.5% early voting turnout, Mecklenburg is behind the state 57% rate so far.

 

[finesse]

I'm up on the tightwire
One side's ice and one is fire
It's a circus game with you and me
I'm up on the tightrope
One side's hate and one is hope
But the top hat on my head is all you see

 

[nycfan]

 

[lawtig02]

We need better turnout tomorrow than we’ve seen from Mecklenburg in early voting, though. At 54.5% early voting turnout, Mecklenburg is behind the state 57% rate so far.

So, in 2020, Mecklenburg was 72%, compared to 75% statewide. I agree Kamala's chances would be improved if Mecklenburg gets closer to the state number, but she can still win, and potentially easily, even if Mecklenburg remains 2-4% behind. I think this election will be decided in the perimeter counties, the Triad, etc., and not in Mecklenburg or Wake themselves.

 

[rodoheel]

We need better turnout tomorrow than we’ve seen from Mecklenburg in early voting, though. At 54.5% early voting turnout, Mecklenburg is behind the state 57% rate so far.

No doubt about that - getting good turnout in Wake and Mecklenburg especially is critical.

 

[CFordUNC]

Lololololol “WE’RE BUILDING THE BIGGEST AND BROADEST COALITION IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY. WE HAVE BLACK NAZIS, WHITE NAZIS, AND INBRED NAZIS!”

 

[nycfan]

Trump really has pivoted to Kamala is going to kill you as his closing argument.



“Margin of fraud”



Kennedy pressed to beg people not to vote for him, even in states where he didn’t try to get off the ballot, but especially in swing states where he wasn’t allowed to withdraw late. To protect Elon Musk’s free speech and Kennedy’s opportunity to get into government power and stuff.

 

[lightbluenc]

We need better turnout tomorrow than we’ve seen from Mecklenburg in early voting, though. At 54.5% early voting turnout, Mecklenburg is behind the state 57% rate so far.

Think we need those rates to tighten just slightly.

2020 Overall NC turnout was 75.35% and Mecklenburg was 72%, so it still trailed by 3ish%. But to make up ground we do need some tightening, but probably not a whole lot.

 

[rodoheel]

 

[CFordUNC]

What the literal fuck is the matter with the GOP

 

[CFordUNC]

 

[nycfan]

 

[CFordUNC]