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Record African-American Turnout In North Carolina?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, North Carolina

I just got off the phone with Mike Ash, Director of the Durham County Board of Elections in Durham, NC. He doesn’t have any numbers as far as percentages of eligible voters making it to the polls at this point, but said several polling locations have already hit record numbers. That is as of 11:30 AM. It appears that the record turnout in early voting on Sunday is expected to continue through today.

This matters because Durham is something of a bellwether of African-American voter turn-out in North Carolina. A high African-American turnoutâ€”and it appears that is indeed occurringâ€”makes a Clinton win impossible.

More as it develops…

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