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Article: North Carolina presidential race still up in the air.
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- Media General Washington Bureau (Washington, District of Columbia)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2008
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Byline: Sean Mussenden
Nov. 5--WASHINGTON-North Carolina more than lived up to the battleground hype this year. But will it keep that swing state label in future presidential elections?
A full day after John McCain conceded the race to Barack Obama, the outcome in North Carolina remained in doubt Wednesday following the closest presidential contest in the state in at least 108 years.
Obama led McCain by a razor-thin margin -- three-tenths of one percent or 13,746 votes out of a total of 4.23 million cast. Election officials were still processing provisional ballots that could -- but were not expected to -- prevent Obama from becoming the first ...