North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D), hosting this week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, said this morning that she believes President Obama will win the battleground state.
The latest Real Clear Politics polling average has Mitt Romney up by 2 points over the incumbent.
“I think the people in North Carolina are beginning to get engaged in the race,” Perdue said on CNN. “…Quite naturally they’ve begin thinking about the Republican convention. But he who bumps last, bumps best.”
She acknowledged that the state is always close on Election Day — Obama won by .3 percent over John McCain in 2008 — but said “the message will win the day for the president.”
“There’s a clear choice in the race and the folks in North Carolina are focusing on that choice. Do you want to go backwards that caused the economy to implode, or do you want to go forward? The president has made tremendous progress,” Perdue said.
“We all understand folks are struggling, but we at the end of the day we’re focusing on things that have gotten us this far in the last 29 months of job growth.”
North Carolina’s unemployment rate is 9.6 percent. “Our unemployment is higher than average because the manufacturing base is higher than average. And during the economy we imported unemployment more than 300,000 people moved to North Carolina,” the governor said.
Perdue is not seeking re-election this fall.
– gonna bump no mo…
(Hangs head in shame) This is my governor. Dreck. Dumbest governor in all 57 states. If she was as in touch with North Carolinians as she claims, she’d be able to run for re-election, but thanks mostly to her, in 2010 North Carolina’s Legislature became Republican for the first time in a century, maybe since Reconstruction.
The only thing she seems to be really good at is winning people over to Republicanism. See her as sort of a reverse barometer. Whatever she says, the opposite is true.
My Congresscritter, Larry Kissell (NC-8) is not going to the Convention although it is in our backyard, we’re a ‘burb of Charlotte, and his ads omit the inconvenient fact that he is a democrat. BTW, he voted against Obamacare. So no, NC is solid red this year, averaging polls this year is going to make RCP look foolish in the end.
As John Edwards and Bev Perdue have shown, it’s easy to fool the voters here once. Fooling them twice is a lot harder.
“Perdue is not seeking re-election this fall.”
Shocking.
Perdue still trying to find a way to cancel the elections?
It is not hard to why her aides are keeping her public apperances to a minimum. She’s not called “Governor Dumplin’” for notthing.
“the message will win the day for the president.”
Because despite constant play by the sympathetic Press, Obama’s message just hasn’t gotten out. If everyone would just listen to Dear Leader, everything would be better. Hey, I know! Obama can make another speech and all will be right with the world, given is sheer awesomeness and magnificent speaking ability.
Puke.