North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper won reelection by 4.5% last year. Looking at what changed from Obama's 2% loss here in 2012, Cooper lost ground in the Black Belt and parts of the Sandhills. Cooper's 21% improvement in Wake County overpowered much of his rural losses.
Here are the top five counties that swung the most towards Cooper and the ones that swung the most towards Forest.
Wake (big urban/suburban county)
Cabarrus (suburb of Charlottte)
Watauga (Home to App State)
Henderson (Asheville suburbs)
Cooper did hold his own in many rural areas across the state. He did not suffer the rural wipeout that plagued other statewide Democratic candidates.
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In a sign of just how inelastic North Carolina is, Auditor Beth Wood only won reelection in 2020 by under 2%. She faced an opponent with no qualifications and a history of stalking. She lost a number of rural counties that she carried fairly easily four years earlier.
You can see the drop in support among minorities downballot. Look at Charlotte.
Wood carried Robeson by 17% in 2016 but lost it by five points in 2020.
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Joe Biden did 7% better than Obama in ruby red Kansas thanks to his considerable gains in the suburbs of Kansas City, Wichita, and some smaller cities across the state like Manhattan and Dodge City.
Biden swung HD-28 (parts of Leawood and Overland Park) by 37.5%. It was Romney 67-32% and Biden 51-48%. Republican Carl Turner won the open seat 53-47%. Meanwhile ancestrally Democratic HD-2 swung well rightward.
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