In 2008, North Carolina was the surprising bonus in Barack Obama’s landslide wave — with him having picked up the 15 electoral votes of a place that people would have been very surprised to hear about as a swing state just a few years earlier. Now, a new Public Policy Polling (D) survey suggests that it could again be crucial to Obama’s re-election strategy, with Obama still leading the Republican contenders.
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