Politics
See also: Politics of the United States, Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era, Voting rights in the United States, and Political party strength in North Carolina| Year | Republican | Democratic |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 49.38% 2,128,474 | 49.70% 2,142,651 |
| 2004 | 56.02% 1,961,166 | 43.58% 1,525,849 |
| 2000 | 56.03% 1,631,163 | 43.20% 1,257,692 |
| 1996 | 48.73% 1,225,938 | 44.04% 1,107,849 |
| 1992 | 43.44% 1,134,661 | 42.65% 1,114,042 |
| 1988 | 57.97% 1,237,258 | 41.71% 890,167 |
| 1984 | 61.90% 1,346,481 | 37.89% 824,287 |
| 1980 | 49.30% 915,018 | 47.18% 875,635 |
| 1976 | 44.22% 741,960 | 55.27% 927,365 |
| 1972 | 69.46% 1,054,889 | 28.89% 438,705 |
| 1968 | 39.51% 627,192 | 29.24% 464,113 |
| 1964 | 43.85% 624,844 | 56.15% 800,139 |
| 1960 | 47.89% 655,420 | 52.11% 713,136 |
North Carolina is politically dominated by the Democratic and Republican political parties. Since the 19th century, third parties, such as the Green Party and Libertarian Party, have had difficulty making inroads in state politics. They have both run candidates for office with neither party's winning a state office. After engaging in a lawsuit with the state over ballot access, the Libertarian Party qualified to be on the ballot after submitting more than 70,000 petition signatures
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked ... and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around: especially as President.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finished—it has lost its instinctive sureness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)