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Originally Posted by Kukurukakakara

North Carolina is 50/50 for Obama & McCain respectively with 100% precincts reporting.

More precisely, 49.64% to 49.40% in favour of Obama.

They're still not calling NC and MO. I've gone to the blogs in desperation for some info

Quote from Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Now, after all the votes have been counted, it came down to a measly ... 11,246 vote difference out of almost 4.2 millions votes cast. North Carolina follows Virginia and joins the chorus of states longing for change. North Carolina is officially Tarheel blue.

....UPDATE 2: NC Board of Elections claims 100 of 100 counties are reporting BARACK OBAMA the winner of NORTH CAROLINA by 11,246 votes! A win is a win, even one by 0.27%!

UPDATE 5: Yet another diary on the subject. Commenter surmises the closeness is triggering a recount.

UPDATE 6: A-ha! BoE vote detail webpage shows absentee & one stop (early) votes are included, but that no (well, a whopping 7) provisional ballots are in the current totals. That there is the hold up. I'm guessing election employees are having a long night of validating and counting provisional ballots by hand. NC likely won't be official until tomorrow.

UPDATE 7: WXII (Winston-Salem) calls it for Obama...Seems a little early since the Board of Elections themselves aren't doing so.

UPDATE 8: For those that aren't in NC, it was rainy both here and in VA all day. This caused wet ballot issues in places where people had to stand in the rain before voting, as wet ballots were jamming the optical readers in places. They eventually fixed these issues, but it had to result in some add'l provisional ballots. Regardless, there has to be more than 7 provisional ballots that were deemed accepted in the entire state!