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Election Day vote and unaffiliated voters will tell the tale

by Thomas Mills | Oct 31, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog

This year in North Carolina, it’s all about the unaffiliated voters. They’re voting as a larger proportion of the electorate than they have in past midterms and how they break will likely determine the outcome of the election. If they break for Republicans, they could...

Those party switchers

by Thomas Mills | Aug 6, 2018 | Editor's Blog, North Carolina

Dr. Michael Bitzer has another blog that highlights the changing North Carolina electorate. This time, he looks at party switchers since the 2018 election. The numbers confirm patterns that have been in place both recently and ones going on for the past half century....

Shifting voter behavior in North Carolina

by Thomas Mills | Mar 19, 2018 | Bitzer, Editor's Blog, Politics

When I started working in politics in North Carolina about 25 years ago, we had two main metrics to determine whether districts were competitive or not: party registration and race. While both factors still matter, the state is changing and how we identify competitive...

Second day of in-person early voting catches up with 2010

by Michael Bitzer | Oct 25, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Bitzer, Features | 5 comments

Originally published at Old North State Politics. In the push of early voting by the campaigns, the reduction of the number of days (but not the number of hours) from 2010 to this year seems to be mitigated by the mobilization and energy of North Carolina voters.Among...

First day of in-person early voting

by Michael Bitzer | Oct 24, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Bitzer, Features

Originally posted at Old North State Politics blog. North Carolina’s start to in-person early voting witnessed 118,063 voters come out to cast their ballots. In comparison to this point in 2010, with seven extra days for voters to have cast ballots and...