With 54% reporting, Obama is leading 51-49% statewide.  But with 95% reporting, he’s up by 13% points in Wake County (Raleigh). Wake is kind of like North Carolina’s version of Fairfax County — it used to be Republican but is trending blue on account of tens of thousands of new young professionals.

Liddy Dole won Wake by 10 points in 2002 and lost it by 15 points this time around.

George W. Bush won Wake by 2 points in 2004 and Obama won it by 13 in 2008 — a 15 point flip.