JimBowie1958
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- Sep 25, 2011
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In 2016, courts threw out the North Carolina House district map for being too heavily gerrymandered, and that is probably justified. The north Carolina district 9 map was apportioned to take just enough minority people in the Charlotte area and lump them in with rural and suburb red areas that the minority vote was effectively irrelevant, and Republicans held that district since 1963.
Now here is a demographic map, and the little red areas are high density population, which means urban which means Democrat Tammany Hall machine controlled.
When the district map was redrawn, the 9th district was almost an entirely new area that had SE Charlotte and southern Lafayet urban areas mixed in.
now, NC-9 has Charlotte's little SE strip, but other than that it is all new to the GOP in NC-9.
So the Democrats wanted a win in 'District 9' to showcase all the negativeness of Trump's Presidency, and they talk about how he won NC-9 by 11 points, etc, but this is not that district as the above map clearly shows.
Bishop was down by more than 15% on August 13th, according to prevailing polls, and the GOP internal polls, the real polls, had him down by 4% a week before the election. So Trump openly endorses Bishop and goes down there to campaign for him, and the polls turn around and Bishop wins by more than 3,900 votes.
So the Democrats little bait and switch they were planning to pull on Trump was shoved back in their face in this district special election, and so the major medioa do NOT want to talk about it now, lol.
Now here is a demographic map, and the little red areas are high density population, which means urban which means Democrat Tammany Hall machine controlled.
When the district map was redrawn, the 9th district was almost an entirely new area that had SE Charlotte and southern Lafayet urban areas mixed in.
now, NC-9 has Charlotte's little SE strip, but other than that it is all new to the GOP in NC-9.
So the Democrats wanted a win in 'District 9' to showcase all the negativeness of Trump's Presidency, and they talk about how he won NC-9 by 11 points, etc, but this is not that district as the above map clearly shows.
Bishop was down by more than 15% on August 13th, according to prevailing polls, and the GOP internal polls, the real polls, had him down by 4% a week before the election. So Trump openly endorses Bishop and goes down there to campaign for him, and the polls turn around and Bishop wins by more than 3,900 votes.
So the Democrats little bait and switch they were planning to pull on Trump was shoved back in their face in this district special election, and so the major medioa do NOT want to talk about it now, lol.
