The electoral winds have been blowing in Democrats’ favor this year. “It’s a bad year to have an R after your name,” as N.C. State political scientist Andrew Taylor told the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society today.

Among the major North Carolina races, though, there is one potential bright spot for Republicans, Taylor said. Click the play button below to hear Taylor’s assessment of the gubernatorial race between Republican Pat McCrory, Charlotte’s mayor, and Democrat Bev Perdue, the lieutenant governor.

4:20 p.m. update: Watch the entire 53-minute presentation by clicking the play button below.

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