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Election day - what to expect for Republicans in N.C.
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Tuesday is Election Day, and given the uproar expressed by Conservatives and Republicans over the past year, we should see landslide gains all across the country by the Republicans.
What will be very interesting to see, at least locally in Charlotte, is how well Republicans fare in local elections. The NC state Democrat Party has been spending big money to get Anthony Foxx elected as Mayor of Charlotte. However, Republican mayoral candidate John Lassiter has been working tirelessly for the last six-plus months and the race is going to be very close.
The at-large City Council race also is shaping up to be hotly contested as well. From early indications it looks like Democrat incumbent Susan Burgess and Republican incumbent Edwin Peacock will get re-elected. It also looks like Patrick Cannon has the inside track on one of those seats as well. An interesting point as it relates to the Cannon campaign, is that his literature makes no mention of him being a Democrat. Fact is, listen to him talk and by all accounts he should actually be running as a Republican....however, the GOP has made a mess of that too. More on that another time.
So, we are left with the fourth at-large seat. Tariq Scott Bokhari and Matthew Ridenhour appear to be headed for a showdown in this race. Both are fiscally conservative Republicans. Both have been working very hard. Matthew is a US Marine and leader of the Charlotte Tea Party movement and looks to get big support from the "conservative base" of the party. Tariq takes a unique, principled approach to the way he views all issues, and conservatives and moderates alike have really taken to his approach.
It will be interesting to see if the outraged Conservative base really is outraged tomorrow. If they are, they will show up at the polls and Lassiter and Ridenhour will walk away with big victories. However, if they do not win, it will poke serious holes in the thought process that the Conservative base is strong enough to carry elections...at least in Charlotte.
