New polling for NC: Stein up big, Trump still has a close race
Many observers are pinning the GOP’s campaign 2024 fate in North Carolina to the performances of Mark Robinson and Donald Trump.
A number of recent polls of the presidential race in North Carolina paint things as cloooooooooooose. A recent poll by Florida Atlantic University found Donald Trump with a 48-47 percent lead in North Carolina.
A WRAL / Survey USA poll finds Kamala Harris with a 49-46 percent lead in 
North Carolina. Quinniapiac University’s poll also has Harris leading in NC by the same margin.
A poll released Monday by The Telegraph of London found Harris with a 45-44 percent lead in North Carolina.
You have to go back to late May / early June to find the last poll showing Republican Mark Robinson either tied or leading the race for North Carolina governor.
In a poll released Monday, WRAL News found Stein leading Robinson 51-37 percent. 
In another poll released Monday, Quinniapiac University found Stein leading Robinson 54-42 percent.
As you can see, the polling is showing margins from one to fourteen percent. We’re thinking it’s really in the four to six percent range.
Some of the polls also reflect that belief. As you can see, John Locke and their flagship publication Carolina Journal – renowned cheerleaders for Robinson – are even showing a five point lead for Stein.
If the double-digit margins produced by The New York Times, Fox News, High Point University, and Quinniapiac hold, 2024 may turn into a rather dark milestone for North Carolina Republicans. The last time a GOP gubernatorial nominee went down in a double-digit loss was Patrick Ballantine (56-43) in 2004. Robin Hayes lost just about as bad in 1996.
Things are not slated to become much better for Mark Robinson. This coming Monday, his wife and her lawyers are slated to appear in Raleigh for a meeting with NC Department of Health & Human Services officials to discuss the problems with her beleaguered, now-shuttered business Balanced Nutrition.
His poor performance can create problems up and down the ballot for the GOP. In an election as close as this will be a strong candidate running for governor would have been a huge advantage.
This is bad. This will hurt Trump. We got this winner thanks to Margo and the X verse. We had a winner in Dale Folwell. Trump was bad in his debate. Most won’t say it, but Trump was terrible last night.
When we attack the refs, it’s going bad.
He’s ALWAYS petulant, childish and boorish .
He’s spent a lifetime intimidating and bullying people and has NO substance.
He’s a dem, liberal at heart. (and so is his daughter and son-in-law).
He’s a damn yankee. I grew up hearing that term and now I know precisely how it originated. It was for people such as him.
He cannot stay on point and he’s a disaster.
It’s always. people love me, leaders tell me I’m the best, I’m the smartest and oh, send me $$$.
He LOST 2020; will never accept and has tarnished, diminished and consumed him for forever.
I have ZERO confidence in him.
Those moderators were very biased and downright awful. It is not just Trump supporters saying that. Here is the world’s oldest news magazine, “The Spectator” published in the UK since 1828:
https://thespectator.com/politics/abc-news-big-loser-trump-harris-debate-david-muir-linsey-davis/
Here is former presidential debate moderator Megyn Kelly:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/09/11/megyn_kelly_im_ashamed_of_the_debate_moderators_at_abc_news.html
We have had biased leftwing moderators in presidential debates for decades, and finally Rona McDaniel, in one of the few good moves she made, led an effort at RNC to dump the Commission on Presidential Debates. Debates this year were supposed to be negotiated between the two parties, but incompetent Michael Whatley totally dropped the ball on that, so we have been stuck with a worse situation than when the Commission was doing it.
Kamala Harris is Hugo Chaves in a skirt, and if we do not beat her this election, our country is toast. We will be like the Roman Empire, overrun with illegal alien barbarians.
Even honest Democrats smell a rat in the ABC News debate. Democrat pollster and former Clinton political advisor Mark Penn has publicly called for an independent investigation of ABC News rigging of the debate, including any collusion with the Harris campaign.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/former-clinton-advisor-calls-internal-investigation-abc-rigging/
It has also come out that ABC News moderator LInsey Davis is a sorority sister of Kamala Harris, something ABC News failed to reveal before the debate. The whole thing just stinks.
I guess that I haven’t gotten over the Primary. Dale Folwell 110%.
Now, I will be voting for Smith.
Robinson is a terrible candidate who speaks very well. However, a vote for anyone other than Robinson is a vote for Stein. It’s just first grade arithmetic. If you don’t hold your nose and vote for Robinson, you’re to blame for electing Stein.
on that we agree.
I held my nose and voted for Tillis. How did that work out? Voting for the less evil, is still evil. You do you!
You and I agree that Tillis is garbage, and I voted for him. To answer your question, look at his voting record versus a real Democrat in that position. I’ll take his 60% versus a Democrat’s 0%. Do I like 60%? No.
The mantra that “Voting for the lesser of two evils is still evil” is true but silly. In the political game, ANY vote to elevate a person to a political position is evil. The system is evil. Your only solution to your dilemma is to back out of the political system completely. After all, that’s what a lot of conservatives have done. That’s why Biden won.
Yond’s last sentence in his comment could not be anymore correct…………
JD Vance attended App St/ECU game in Greenville yesterday.
He was well-received and spoke with and met many people.