N.C. primary round-up by CQ

Jason Sandford

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Check out Congressional Quarterly’s N.C. primary round-up:

Even though election day isn’t until Tuesday, North Carolina’s primary has already drawn record turnout. While the Democratic presidential nomination contest will be the marquee event, the primary will also set the fields for the state’s Senate and gubernatorial races, as well as several key House races.

Participation for mail-in ballots for the primary exceeds any other in state history and is expected to match the more than 400,000 ballots mailed in for the November general election in 2006. Usually, primaries draw a fraction of the general election vote.