It looked for a while like NC might become a swing state. But the Palin-mania did well here, and it looks — right now — like NC is safely in the McCain column.
BUT… not so fast.
Let’s start on August 2, 2008, with the following numbers of registered voters
Democrats: 2,669,616
Republican: 1,937,735
And then the week by week additions:
Week Democratic Republican
08/09 3,833 709
08/16 4,354 531
08/23 2,188 275
08/30 3,410 688
09/06 4,851 1,309
09/13 7,307 2,942
Going back to the first week of 2008, the two main parties have added the following number of voters:
Democrats +184,113
Republicans +24,614
That’s encouraging, assuming the enthusiasm for McCain wanes as Election Day gets closer.