north carolina

And actually, just to give you a preview of my election night prediction…this is pretty close to what I’m thinking.

First, the Obama leads…

Florida: Obama +2
Obama: 47%
McCain: 45%

Virginia: Obama +3
Obama: 47%
McCain: 44%

Pennsylvania: Obama +4
Obama: 47%
McCain: 43%

Nevada: Obama +4
Obama: 47%
McCain: 43%

Not much change from last week to this week, so the story is essentially that Obama’s numbers are holding steady in these key battleground states with 21 days left.

Florida
Obama 51, McCain 46
Week ago: Obama 52, McCain 45)

Big Blue is building data centers in North Carolina and Japan to support new services and, the company says, become a little more "green."

It’s at about :30 seconds in. Edwards was asked if he’ll be able to endorse the person he voted for in North Carolina.

Edwards said, with a big grin on this face, “I’d say highly likely, yes.”

I think that’s pretty obvious.

As I predicted earlier, he’s going to win by 15%.

Here’s the raw, and you can see I rounded these numbers up.
Obama - 888,979 - 56.7%
Clinton - 655,482 - 41.8%
No Pref- 22,626 - 1%

Total Vote - 1,567,087

I think he beat nearly all the pollsters projections, although Zogby was the closest that I can see.

These numbers from MSNBC:

Obama - 725,161 - 56%
Clinton - 543,476 - 42%

These numbers have been fairly steady for the past hour.

By the way, Zogby predicted it would be a 14% win.

He also thought Obama would win by 2% in Indiana.

We shall see…

Wow.

Clinton - 481,229 - 52%
Obama - 443,591 - 48%

Who would have thunk it?

However, Chuck Todd just said on MSNBC that the Obama campaign doesn’t think they took it.

By their calculations, they’re about 15,000 votes too short.

But if those numbers hold up, this is already a BIG story because Obama is keeping Indiana tight and blowing her out in North Carolina.

Early voting and mail in has produced 470,878 votes or 50% of the turnout from 2004, which saw 16% of the voting base come out to join in the fun.

Granted, it wasn’t competitive then, but it’s still impressive that early voting this year is so avid.

What’s even more interesting is that 326,090 Democrats voted in their primary, along with 60,959 Unaffiliated voters for a total of 387,049.

Only 73,164 Republicans voted in their primary, along with 9,639 Unaffiliated voters for a total of 82,803.