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:
“I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.”
—Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)
“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto—God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)