Source: Benjamin Brown, NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/4/14


After the 2010 decennial census, when changes in population and demographics prompted the state’s legislature to lay out new electoral boundaries, the state’s 7th Congressional District took on a new, Republican-voting county and a candidate who in 2012 came just a matchstick’s length from unseating the district’s long-serving Democrat, Rep. Mike McIntyre.

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