Democratic Primaries

I spent some extended time there.

The issue is that Charlotte, the largest city, is not as blue as one might expect, and therefore the cities have difficulty compensating for the rural areas (the other cities are far too small and not all overwhelmingly blue either). There is, however, a lot of Democratic support in the rural areas, more so than one might think, and so the state is always close.

I thought - perhaps wrongly - that Hillary Clinton took PA, MI, and WI for granted in an attempt to win NC and FL. I don't want Joe Biden to make the same choice this time around. But NC is far less expensive and resource-intensive than Florida, and if memory serves has a higher African-American population. NC also has a Senate race (and anger among the electorate at the apparent wrongdoing or possibly even crimes of the other senator, Burr, who is not up for reelection); FL has no Senate race. So I support efforts to fight in NC as well as GA and AZ provided that PA/MI/WI have been shored up (and I'm really only worried about the last of those three). I don't really want to see time and resources wasted in Florida.