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[Election 2024] SoDu Snapshot: Early Voting Participation Tops 2016 and Growing
Here’s a quick snapshot of early voting in Durham with just a few days left: Statewide, 3,368,358 voters – about 43% of eligible North Carolina voters – have cast ballots before Nov. 5’s general election. That already exceeds early voting participation in 2016 and is coming close to matching or exceeding early voting numbers from…
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[Election 2024] Two U.S. House Members Compete for North Carolina Attorney General
By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press North Carolina’s next attorney general will be one of two outgoing members of Congress who have represented the Charlotte area on Capitol Hill and previously at the state legislature. Both Democratic U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson and Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop are lawyers and prolific fundraisers. Each has argued…
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[Election 2024] Could A Trump Win Change Mortgage System – and Make Them Pricier?
By R.J. RICO, Associated Press If Donald Trump wins the presidential election, Republicans hope he will fulfill a longstanding GOP goal of privatizing the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have been under government control since the Great Recession. But Democrats and some economists warn that, especially in this time of high mortgage…
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[Election 2024] Abortion Bans Top of Mind for Young Women Voting in N.C.
By AMANDA SEITZ and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press The TikTok videos haunt 26-year-old Christy Kishbaugh. One seared into her memory shows a young mom talking about how several Idaho emergency rooms rejected her because of the state’s abortion ban, leaving her to bleed for weeks after a miscarriage. Kishbaugh sends videos like that to friends,…
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[Election 2024] SoDu Snapshot: North Carolina’s Unaffiliated Voters Could Be Major Force
Here’s a quick snapshot of early voting in Durham after nearly a week: Statewide, more than 2 million people have cast ballots – most of them in-person – out of nearly 7.8 million eligible voters. Across North Carolina, Republican ballots lead Democrats by an exceedingly slim margin – 686,628 for Republicans compared to 683,265 for…
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[Election 2024] AP Decision Notes: What to Expect in North Carolina on Election Day
By ROBERT YOON, Associated Press North Carolina voters will cast ballots for president and governor in the Nov. 5 general election while many in the state are still dealing with the aftermath and massive destruction caused by Hurricane Helene. The Tar Heel State is one of a handful of competitive presidential battlegrounds that will likely…
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[Election 2024] Trump and Harris Navigate Storm, Rollercoaster Governor’s Race in NC
By BILL BARROW, Associated Press Renee Kyro already has voted for Republican nominee Donald Trump for the third consecutive presidential election. But she plans to volunteer for the first time, reaching out to her neighbors in hurricane-battered western North Carolina to make sure they have a voting plan amid a flurry of precinct changes. “I…
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[Election 2024] SoDu Snapshot: Democrats, Female Voters Lead Way in Early Voting
Here’s a quick snapshot of early voting in Durham after two days: Speaking of wait times, the Durham County Board of Elections provides an online tracker that offers a decent estimate of how long you can expect to stand in line to fill out both sides of your ballot.
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[Election 2024] North Carolina Sees Strong Early Voting, Despite Helene Obstacles
By MAKIYA SEMINERA AND JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press Turnout for early in-person voting started strong Thursday in the presidential battleground of North Carolina, including in mountainous areas where Hurricane Helene destroyed property and upended lives but apparently did not dampen a fierce desire to participate in elections. More than 400 early voting sites opened as…
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[SoDu Poll] 2024 Presidential Election
Are you ready for early voting? Here’s a how-to guide from Southpoint Access!
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[Election 2024] Robinson Sues CNN Over Porn Site Report
By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson sued CNN on Tuesday over its recent report that he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board, calling the reporting reckless and defamatory. The lawsuit, filed in Wake County Superior Court, comes less than four weeks after…
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[Election 2024] Harris Calls Out Trump from NC Pulpit
By JOSH BOAK, AAMER MADHANI, and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Kamala Harris used an appearance Sunday before a largely Black church audience in battleground North Carolina to call out Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about the government’s hurricane response. President Joe Biden visited Florida for the second time this month to survey storm damage. Harris,…
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