I'm agitated about the NC General Assembly

[DemocraticSocialist8]

So a Republican won in my county in the 2016 General Election and helped maintain the right-wing tilt of the NC General Assembly. What's crazy is Hillary Clinton won my County...and by a healthy margin too! So how the hell does a Republican beat a Democrat by over 9,000 votes in a county that went Blue?

Answer: Apparently only about 70,000 people took the time to vote for the NC State Senate out of 121,000 people who voted overall in the County!!! If a couple percentage more had voted for the Democrat, we wouldn't have a Rethug state senator!!! We have GOT to find better ways to inform people about local and state candidates because people are winning PURELY because enough people don't check off every slot and only vote for certain positions. There's no reason a Republican should be the state senator in an otherwise deep blue county....

[dweller]

1. which county?

I'm in Chatham and we went solid blue but for the ag commissioner ... appropriate for a largely rural county ... so I feel your pain I guess, but cooper did get the final vote, so there's that
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[DemocraticSocialist8]

2. Cumberland

[Iggo]

3. 121,000 people voted in the election but 50,000 of them left the State Senator race blank?

Do I have that right?

[DemocraticSocialist8]

7. Yep...in a County Hillary Clinton won by pretty healthy margins

[Iggo]

8. Wow!

[bathroommonkey76]

4. Straight party voting would clear all this up

But the GOP controlled legislature nipped that in the bud a few years ago.

[melm00se]

5. In my experience

party affiliation and voting patterns can be different at the local and federal level.

It is quite possible that they liked Clinton vs Trump but they like the Republican State Senate candidate ahead of the Democratic candidate.

it happens.

[dsc]

6. are you sure your entire county is in that district?

the maps are very gerrymandered and counties have been broken up quite a bit. I think your county has Fayetteville which was likely broken into two or more districts.

[DemocraticSocialist8]

9. It's possible. I'd have to dig deeper. I'm basing what I'm saying off of the election maps

which don't show how regions are gerrymandered