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[Election 2024] Durham Stays Blue on a Day Won Nationally by Red
It wasn’t all bad, Durham. Josh Stein defeated Mark Robinson to become North Carolina’s next governor, with Rachel Hunt as his lieutenant governor. Elaine Marshall held on as secretary of state. Jeff Jackson succeeds Stein as attorney general, thwarting Dan Bishop. Maurice “Mo” Green won against Michele Morrow to lead the state’s Department of Public…
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[Election 2024] Results Dashboard for North Carolina
Working in partnership with The Associated Press, Southpoint Access is providing results of the 2024 General Election in North Carolina.
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[Election 2024] What to Watch on Election Day
Polls are open in Durham until 7:30 p.m. By STEVE PEOPLES, AP National Political Writer It’s Election Day. Polls opened Tuesday across the nation and Americans cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election. In a deeply divided nation, the election is a true toss-up between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. We know seven…
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[Election 2024] SoDu Snapshot: Early Voting Exceeds 2020 Numbers
Nearly 58% of Durham’s 251,785 eligible voters cast ballots during the early voting period, which ended on Nov. 2, exceeding early participation in the 2020 general election. Here’s a quick snapshot of statistics related to early voting, according to the Durham County Board of Elections: Statewide, as of Sunday morning, more than 4.4 million voters…
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[Election 2024] Fight to Finish Will Determine Congressional Control
By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent The final doors are being knocked, ads are blaring and candidates are making a last pitch to voters. Even with the high-energy final push, the races for control of Congress are at a stalemate, essentially a toss-up for the House, and fight to the finish for the Senate. The…
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[Election 2024] Robinson Battles on vs. Stein for N.C. Governor’s Office
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Addressing over 100 supporters outside an ice cream stand that’s shaped like a giant strawberry, North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson battered his Democratic rival for governor and the media, and said he’d keep fighting as their race neared its conclusion. “I’m on the battlefield for the people…
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[Election 2024] Human Nature More Hackable Than Election System
By DAVID KLEPPER and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, Associated Press Hacking a local election system in the United States wouldn’t be easy, and secretly altering votes on a scale massive enough to change the outcome of the presidential race would be impossible, election officials have said, thanks to decentralized systems, paper records for nearly all ballots,…
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[Raising Durham] Grounding Political Talk in Family Values
On Nov. 7, 2020 – a perfect November day in Durham – my daughter Harper and I sat outside Mad Hatter’s in Durham, enjoying lunch in the autumn sunshine. As we finished eating, a caravan of honking cars zoomed down Main Street, filling the air with cheers and joyful shouts: the Associated Press finally made…
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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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