The Morning After the Primary
The votes have been counted (full results are here), and the theme of yesterday’s primary seems clear: no major upsets. Like this year’s NCAA tournament, all of the No. 1 seeds advanced.
Barack Obama put to rest all of the talk about Hillary Clinton’s late surge in North Carolina, trouncing her by double digits and strengthening his bid for the presidential nomination.
Beverly Perdue and Pat McCrory, the favorites in the gubernatorial primaries, each won by large margins. Now those two — who have opposite approaches to state government — face off in a general election. Perdue and McCrory do have one thing in common: they are each trying to break a barrier. Perdue wants to be the first woman governor; McCrory wants to break the “Charlotte curse.”
Two races went down to the wire. The Democratic primary in the 5th Congressional District is too close to call and will come down to provisional ballots. Roy Carter had a razor-thin lead over Diane Hamby. Both are fighting for the right to run against Congressmwoman Virginia Foxx. And in the Democratic primary for commissioner of labor, Winston-Salem resident Mary Fant Donnan appears headed for a run-off.
Across North Carolina and in Forsyth County, voter turnout was colossal.
