If you think North Carolina is a solid red state this year, think again. Obama knows it could be in play, as is evident by his virtual non-stop television adverstising we are currently enduring. Whether the ads are a cause or an effect is unknown, but voter registration is skyrocketing in North Carolina and most new registrants are Democrats.

Statewide voter registration reached nearly 5.9 million as of last week, an increase of nearly 5 percent since Jan. 5. In April alone, 100,000 voters were added just before the May primary, according to Democracy North Carolina.

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Statewide, Democrats have added eight times as many new voters as Republicans since the beginning of the year, Hall said. He noted that there are fewer registered Republicans today in 15 counties than in January, including Durham and Orange, the release said.

According to Hall’s analysis, one-third of the new voters are black; two out of five live in the state’s six largest counties; and 10,000 identify themselves as Hispanic — a 25 percent increase in this new category.

And while voter registration increases is part of the story its not the whole story.

“You can look ahead and see this horrible traffic jam,” Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina, a Durham-based research and advocacy center, said in a news release.

Hall urged election officials to add more staff and one-stop voting venues before Election Day.

If Obama doesn’t win North Carolina this November, consider the above quote as groundwork for the countless challenges, irregularites and charges of voter fraud we’ll hear. The Dems in this state won’t give up without a fight, even if they have to make it up. Of course they control the state government and election apparatus, so they won’t have anyone to blame but themselves.