The heart of President Obama’s reelection woes is North Carolina, Politico reports.
The state once epitomized Obama’s electoral strengths, but now, with unemployment high and enthusiasm low, the president faces an uphill battle.
According to Politico:
It’s not merely that fewer than 45 percent of state voters approve of the job performance of the president who’s set to land there Tuesday, or that the state’s unemployment rate is pushing double digits. Or that both houses of the state Legislature flipped from blue to red in 2010.
Or even that a former top state Democratic official recently resigned amid accusations he sexually harassed a male staffer.
Obama’s Achilles Tarheel is the general lack of enthusiasm, especially among younger voters, that threatens to reverse his historic win in 2008, depriving him of a key part of his own map and imperiling his party’s tenuous foothold in the upper South.
