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Apologies for the typos in my original post as I have been working on one of those 30-minute public computers at N.C. State where, as in the sport of basketball, you can find yourself trying to write out a "buzzer beater" before the clock winds down to zero!

So here are some corrections to the previous comment:

"Many thanks to Kirk Ross and Independent Weekly..."

"A highly qualified black woman candidate for lieutenant governor, Linda Coleman..."

"So I came into Mecklenburg County having won every precinct in Iredell, Lincoln and Yadkin counties, including 65 per cent of the vote in Lincoln and Yadkin and 70 per cent in Iredell before coming to find out that a large portion of the precincts in Mecklenburg (Charlotte) did not even report full returns for Congress. We're still trying to find out those vote totals in that election."

And now this additional comment:

There was a rush to split up Mecklenburg County into two or more sections as part of redistrcting following the 1990 census.
Posted by David McKnight]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:50:20 -0500 Indy Week
Many thanks to InKirk Ross and Independent Weekly for bringing attention to this very important subject. Indeed, I saw one report [and I would like further confirmation on this and would welcome any comments or corrections from Independent readers) that in these recently concluded 2012 national elections for Congress that, according to this one account at least, more ballots were cast for all Democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Represenatives (from all the states and congressional districts) than for Republican House candidates, but because of the configurations of individual congressional districts, the Republican Party will enjoy a majority in the House in the next session of Congress beginning in January 2013.

So Democratic Party activists will have to choose between assurances for minority representation in Congress to reliance on majority rule for establishing the majority party in the House of Representatives.
Posted by David McKnight]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:56:20 -0500 Indy Week Posted by Kirk Ross]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:54:28 -0500 Indy Week Posted by ProudlyUnaffiliated]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:51:25 -0500 Indy Week Posted by ct]]> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:27:43 -0500 Indy Week