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“Going into election day, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are nearly neck and neck in all seven swing states; North Carolina is one of them, with 16 electoral votes, up one from four years ago. Like many Southern states, it voted for Democrats for a century before swinging to the Republicans in the 1960s, but population shifts, including many people moving in from other states, have made it a swing state in recent elections. Barack Obama narrowly carried North Carolina in 2008 but lost it in 2012; since then, it has remained close, with Republicans generally having a small advantage. North Carolina was the only one of this year's swing states won by Donald Trump in 2020, but just by around 1.3%, so this time, North Carolina is very much at play as a crucial swing state. Kamala Harris doesn't need to win North Carolina, but any scenario in which she does makes her path to 270 electoral votes and the White House a lot easier. Trump can also get to 270 without North Carolina, but doing so will be very, very hard. Like so many other swing states, North Carolina is a story of a few large and heavily Democratic cities balanced against a vast rural and Republican hinterland. Democratic voters are mainly concentrated in the state capital, Raleigh, and the neighboring cities of Greensboro and High Point, as well as in Charlotte, the state's largest city. There's also a small but significant concentration in the west of the state around Asheville, while pretty much everywhere else is Republican red. Every election has a so-called October surprise; this time, it's Hurricane Helene, a devastating storm that caused more than 200 deaths and catastrophic damage across the southeastern United States, including Georgia and North Carolina. These are the communities [in the west of the state] battered by Hurricane Helene. It's unclear how Hurricane Helene will swing these elections, but it may affect the pace of the counting process. How the federal government, that is, Biden and Harris at the White House, and the state government respond to this disaster - and how they're perceived to respond-could be a key factor for the state's voters as they head to the polls.”
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