“It really is a shame. McCrory ran a very good campaign (though some will say he could have used a couple of negative ads there at the end). Any other year and McCrory would have won. John McCain lost the race, not McCrory. “
Bush won the state by 12 last time. I agree with you that every single thing about the state campaign being equal those coattailes would have pulled him through.
One interesting thing is that there were probably lots of white Charlotteans who voted Obama/McCrory while many of the folks out east voted McCain/Perdue.