Election 2016 - A lesson for progressives from North Carolina

Of course Election 2016 was heart breaking for Democrats on the national level, but in North Carolina we beat an incumbent running for re-election for the first time ever. We beat an incumbent Republican in the year of Trump in a state that went for Trump by 3.6%. Here's a possible explanation ...

"Pat McCrory's now official defeat in the race for Governor of North Carolina has real implications for the progressive movement nationally in the era of Trump.

The dominant reason given for McCrory's defeat will be the unpopularity of HB2, and certainly that played an important role. In August we found that only 30% of voters in the state supported it, and that McCrory's handling of the issue made them less likely to vote for him by a 12 point margin. If he'd vetoed it, he very well might have been reelected.

But the seeds of McCrory's defeat really were planted by the Moral Monday movement in the summer of 2013, just months after McCrory took office."

Full article here ... http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/12/why-pat-mccrory-lost-and-what-it-means-in-trumps-america.html

The article concludes with ...

" The protesters in North Carolina, by making news in their own right week after week after week, forced sustained coverage of what was going on in Raleigh. And even though it was certainly a long game, with plenty more frustration in between, those efforts led to change at the polls 42 months after they really started.

Keep Pounding."

Keep pounding, keep pounding, keep pounding ... #resist #resist #resist