Undaunted wrote:The American south had been democratic since L.B.J. pushed through the civil rights legislation, after which the south became republican in defiance. Today the southern states have undergone many demographic changes as a recent CNN poll shows Hillary and Trump neck to neck in Georgia, as for North Carolina which has been part of the tech boom anything is possible!
Obama carried North Carolina in 2008 and lost it in 2012. Selecting Kaine was a strategy to win the state for Clinton, I hope it works.
I don't get the strategy as Kaine was a Virginia senator?
You are right, he was viewed as a regional candidate. Also, he is fluent in Spanish.