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Squaring North Carolina's Partisan Balance and Gender Imbalance

Squaring North Carolina's Partisan Balance and Gender Imbalance

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Michael McDonald
Oct 25, 2024
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As of today, Thursday Oct. 24, there is near parity in party registration among all North Carolina early voters — mail and in-person — with registered Republicans taking a lead for the first time by 0.2 percentage points or 3,365 voters out of the 2 million voted so far.

At the same time, Women have a 9.9 percentage point lead among early voters. If partisanship and gender are correlated, this presents a puzzle of sorts. So what is going on?

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