Could Trump win North Carolina?

Published November 7, 2016 7:51pm ET



Usually, when someone writes a headline as a question, you can bet the answer to that question will be “no.” And perhaps Tuesday night will make it so, but as it stands now, the person who will win North Carolina is…. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This seems odd, I know, since we’re hearing that Democrats are outvoting Republicans in the Tar Heel State, but as CNN reports, those raw numbers don’t tell the whole story. For starters, Hillary Clinton is underperforming President Obama in 2012, while Donald Trump is overperforming Mitt Romney.

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