President Obama will visit North Carolina on Monday. Why? Josh Kraushaar explains Obama’s reelection strategy in the National Journal here.

Sometimes the spin from the White House is more telling based on what isn’t said than what is.

That seems to be the case today, with President Obama‘s re-election advisers pitching the case that Virginia and North Carolina – and possibly, both – are must-win states for the president. Left unsaid: if those traditionally GOP states are becoming must-win, there has to be some serious atrophy in other parts of the country where Obama has done well….

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…But by putting the Tarheel State in close to the must-win category, they’re unwittingly showing a sign of weakness. To be blunt, even with demographic change [in North Carolina] and the Democratic convention being held in Charlotte, North Carolina will be a tough state for the president to hold.