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Pearce: Skeptical about Obama in N.C.

Gary Pearce is skeptical about Barack Obama's chances in North Carolina.

In a post on the Talking About Politics blog, the longtime Democratic political consultant says that he's not ready to color the state blue on the electoral map.

"I wrote a piece for the N&O this Sunday saying that history — and, admittedly, all the battle scars I’ve accumulated over 32 years in politics — still makes me skeptical about Democratic chances here this year," he writes.

His reason: History.

"Seven times in a row, going back to 1980, the Democratic presidential candidate has lost North Carolina," he writes. "They can't get more than 42 percent of the vote."

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