North Carolina Primary Results
Tuesday 2 May 2006 polling hours 6:30a EDT (1030 UTC) to 7:30p EDT (2330 UTC) / 8:30p EDT (0030 UTC). NORTH CAROLINA allows its County Boards of Elections to decide whether to keep polls open until 8:30 p.m.1
Faircloth, 70, was elected in 1992, after a career as a farmer and businessman and a stint on the North Carolina Highway Commission. A longtime Democrat, he switched parties and ran as a Republican and ally of the state’s other senator, Jesse Helms.2
When a tiny tin flag costing a pittance is the litmus test of whether someone loves his flag and his country? Wearing a lapel flag is, or should be, merely a matter of choice, as much a choice as, say, having entwined rattlesnakes or “Mother” tattooed on one’s back or forearm.3
In an election year in which Republicans seem to be on the run from a disastrous war in Iraq, a credit crisis in the financial and mortgage markets, and a sharp decline in the dollar, the Democratic nominee, whoever that might be, likely will be the next president. So Democrats must choose carefully.4
That way if Hillary wins in Indiana and loses by single digits in North Carolina she can still claim that she is the candidate with momentum. It has been a very tough few weeks for Barack Obama and he has never seemed to really rebound from his many issues that voters have with hios past.5
“Hillary is looking for evidence to lead the superdelegates to look past the numerical advantage that Barack Obama has and will have,” says Lawrence Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, at the University of Minnesota. “A win in Indiana and/or a win or close second in North Carolina will put wind in those sails.”6