Inside Politics: Races won with under half the vote
Most voters in the 9th Congressional District voted against Republican Mark Harris in this year’s election.And yet he won.Similarly, more than half of the voters in the whole state this year voted against Democrat Anita Earls for the North Carolina Supreme Court.And yet Earls will pick up a gavel in January. She defeated Republican incumbent Barbara Jackson.Earls had 49.45 percent of the vote in her election. Harris had 49.43 percent in his. […]
