http://www.talkingaboutpolitics.com info@talkingaboutpolitics.com info@talkingaboutpolitics.com Carbine http://www.talkingaboutpolitics.com/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ArticleView/mid/364/articleId/3451/Why-Democrats-Lost-in-North-Carolina.aspx#Comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:06:28 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:297209 Well, they only mis-ruled the state for a mere 100+ years...kinda mean of the populace to hold that so strongly against them. I've always said that the only way the Democratic Party survived in North Carolina was by leveraging the powers of incumbency to bend democracy. Shaking down businesses for campaign money, intimidating a supine press, and gerrymandering districts to amplify a meger base of support are tactics that you can't use once you're party is out of office. The D's are going to have to learn how to compete in a real democracy, not the one-party psuedo-democracy they created and ran for the last 100+ years. http://www.talkingaboutpolitics.com/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ArticleView/mid/364/articleId/3451/Why-Democrats-Lost-in-North-Carolina.aspx#Comments