The Paul Ryan Medicare plan
Though President Obama won North Carolina, barely, in 2008, no one can call it a Democratic bastion.
So this should be frightening news for Republicans in 2012, up and down the ballot:
By almost a 2:1 margin, the state’s voters are against the Paul Ryan Medicare proposal. Without Ryan’s name or party mentioned, 47% of voters are opposed to seniors receiving a voucher for private insurance, with only 24% in support. At 17-61, Democrats are starkly against the plan, as are independents (22-40), but even Republicans fall only 35- 33 in support. Seniors are the most opposed, with only 18% supporting and 56% opposing the Ryan plan. But the youngest voters, those who would be affected by the plan in 25 years or so, are also very much against it, 24-52.
That's almost 2-1 against the Ryan plan, even when it's not called the Ryan plan, with similar numbers among independents.
Every Republican in the North Carolina delegation backed the Ryan plan in Congress.
It won't exactly help any of the Presidential candidates in NC, either, and it's pretty much impossible to see how a Republican candidate wins the Presidency without North Carolina.
Well done, Paul Ryan. Well done.