Yellow lights for both parties in North Carolina special election results

Yes, I suppose President Trump’s Monday night rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, did push Republican nominee Dan Bishop across the finish line in his 51-49% victory over Democrat Dan McCready in the North Carolina 9th Congressional District special election.

That’s good news for Republicans, but this is a district that voted 54-42% for Trump in 2016 and 55-44% for Mitt Romney in 2012. A straight-line extrapolation from this week’s results has Trump significantly weaker than when he carried North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes, 50-46%. That’s good news for Democrats.