If you’re looking for a nail-biting close election, welcome to North Carolina in 2010. The NC Republican Party is excited about the prospect of gaining majority control of the state Senate for the first time since 1898, but Democrats believe they will narrowly hold their majority. A handy race-by-race projection from an astute analyst who helps businesses invest in “free market” candidates shows the Republicans winning the NC Senate and very likely the NC House. Of course, projections are tricky. Both sides are using polls to woo financial support with a message that they can win, with a little more money. The stakes are extra large this year: the winner gets to use the 2010 Census to redraw legislative and Congressional district lines that will favor their party for the next decade. Who wins comes down to who shows up to vote. The GOP is counting on an energized base of supporters, plus discouraged Democratic voters staying home and independents heavily favoring Republican candidates.
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Maybe with a Republican majority, we’ll get more responsible on spending less. How can the state of Tennessee run their state with less taxes than NC? They seem to do a pretty good job with no state income tax.