The statewide races in North Carolina indicate just how large the Democratic majority is in Guilford County.
13th District Congressman Ted Budd, according to unofficial results, won election to the US Senate with 1,891,342 votes for 50.7 percent over Democrat Cheri Beasley with 1,755,716 votes for 47 percent.
However, Beasley won Guilford County with 107,609 votes for 57.9 percent over Budd who had 74,222 votes for 39.9 percent.
Republicans won both of the North Carolina Supreme Court races. The Democrats currently have a four-to-three majority on the NC Supreme Court and, following the election, that will flip to a five-to-two Republican majority.
But both Republican NC Supreme Court candidates lost in Guilford County by large margins.
Republican candidate Richard Dietz won statewide with 52.6 percent of the vote over Democrat Lucy Inman who had 47.4 percent.
In Guilford County, Inman won with 58 percent of the vote over Dietz with 42 percent.
Republican Supreme Court candidate Trey Allen won statewide with 52.4 percent of the vote over Democrat Supreme Court Justice Sam J. Ervin IV with 47.6 percent.
However, Ervin won in Guilford County with 58 percent to 42 percent for Allen.
The percentages in the At-large Guilford County Board of Commissioners race were almost identical to the results in the Supreme Court races in Guilford County with Democrat At-large Guilford County Commissioner Kay Cashion with 58 percent defeating Republican Jerry Alan Branson with 42 percent.
In the other two countywide races the Republicans did a little better but not nearly well enough to win.
In the At-large Guilford County Board of Education race, Democrat Alan Sherouse with 55 percent defeated Republican Demetria Carter with 45 percent.
In the Guilford County sheriff’s race, Democrat Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers won with 55.6 percent over Republican Phil Byrd with 44.4 percent.
The current 6th Congressional District includes all of Guilford County and most of Rockingham County and the vote totals followed a similar pattern. Democrat 6th District Congresswoman Kathy Manning with 53.7 percent of the vote defeated Republican Christian Castelli with 45 percent. But Manning won Guilford County with 59 percent to 40 percent for Castelli.
The election left no doubt that Guilford County is a blue county.
There are many reasons for this but it doesn’t help that our county and state GOP offices are so weak. I’m an unaffiliated voter but still during every election season I get a mailbox full of voter guides and postcards from liberal candidates and the NC Democratic Party. I get nothing from Republicans. I also get (too many) text messages from liberal groups asking if I’ve voted and if I need a ride to the polls. Again, nothing from any conservative group. And the last time I emailed the Guilford GOP and the state GOP to complain about a Senator (Burr or Tillis, I don’t remember which) I was ignored and got no replies.
It’s like the Republican Party is asleep. It needs new leadership.
I LOVE the unsolicited texts! I had a lot of fun with them this time around:
– What kind of pizza and beer are you serving on the bus so I can get a good meal before I vote? How long can I stay on the bus? If you are feeding me, how can I help you in return?
– Have been to six different early voting sites so far, going to hit a few more today.
– Vote early, Vote often!! I don’t need an ID, right???
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Sometimes I get a response and sometimes I do not.
In response to your comment on mailers, other junk mail, and the Republicans apparently asleep at the wheel; at the early voting site my wife and I went to (Ag Center), there was a lady as close as she could get handing out a “Blue” sheet that showed how to vote a straight Democratic ballot. She was throwing them out to anyone and proudly stating “start with Bealsey and go right down this ticket using this guide!” Where were the Republicans with their “Red” sheet?
Does bring a larger question that I need to research – Same Day Registration and Voting. I witnessed a local university bussing students over to the polling location, no issue there. My question is, who is checking the database to make certain these students are not already registered to vote elsewhere in the state or country? NOTE – I am not saying they are doing anything wrong BUT who is confirming and what do the checks and balances look like?
I completely agree. Went on a rant about this yesterday. And stop running the same old people locally. Get new blood and put some $ into it.
Well said, it is sad how little the Rep party does in Guilford County.
So very sad. So let it be said that Guilford County loves inflation, crime, high cost of gas……
It is a blue county…sad I have to say so.
Guilford County is ruined. Moved to a red county while they still exist. One where no Democrat got more than 17% of the vote. Hopeful we can keep it that way for future generations. Wokesboro can keep the blue & green hair as well as the liberal loons.
Very informative, however that is true because of the voters within city limits!
I, unfortunately, live in the city limits and did NOT vote for one single dem, nor did my city friends. The problem is that people are moving here from other states to get away from how their cities and counties were ran, but they continue to vote along the same party line as before. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that they are only bringing their stupid politics with them and they are ruining Greensboro and Guilford County. People need to wake up and vote every dem out of office!!
It is so very sad that our country and Guilford County voters are so brainwashed blue by the mainstream media and social platforms as their only source of news. Anyone that watches CNN, MSNBC, specifically “The View” or “Joe Scarborough” must have rocks for a brain. They can not tell the truth, but, just tell lies. Yes, the midterm elections were a big disappointment for the Republican Party. It shocks me that so many people in America feel the Economy is good, the Southern Border is safe, gasoline prices are low and our relationships with foreign countries are good. These are all lies as you well know, but the media and uninformed and uneducated voters have voted. Sometimes you just can’t help stupid decisions about who you support and for what reasons. My prayers now are that in 2024 we, the Republicans can take back our country and Make America Great Again.
Part of the problem is that republicans actually believe what you are saying is true and ignore the actual reason people vote against the republican party.
I’m old enough to remember when California produced Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. There’s zero chance of anything like that occurring now.
And the whole US is sliding down the same toilet bowl, slowly but surely (including Guilford county). So sad.
Austin,
Don’t forget all the schools of Higher Learning(?) that have people that have no skin in the game who vote for whoever they’re told.
I moved to Northern VA in 1988, was planning to return in a few more years. Looks less likely every day.
1980 GHS graduate.
I’m also a GHS graduate. We are leaving Guilford for Randolph.
Maybe that is why crime has gotten so much worst in the county. Everyday you hear about shootings, robbery, or other crimes.
One issue the “County” has is that the urban areas have grown considerably in the last 30 years. Rural voters tend to be more conservative and urban voters are often more liberal. Another issue that tends to favor liberal voters is that there are so many colleges in the county that allow students who live here full-time to register as residents and vote in our elections even though they will be leaving after 4 or 6 years of study so that lifelong residents are left with the ramifications of their choices of politicians and bond/tax issues. It’s become more obvious that this affects property owners as taxes increase to pay for social issues supported by young people who don’t have financial ownership in the process.
Conservative politicians overall don’t “get” the importance of social media or connecting with young people when it comes to recruiting new voters, they don’t really have a feel for the actual issues that voters care about, and they still haven’t grasped that a large number of younger voters really don’t support Trump and really do support some type of abortion options and those two issues were huge when it came to national outcomes. I’ve been predicting since last year that the conservatives weren’t going to do well because of these problems and if the GOP sticks to these issues they will lose in 2024. (Yes, I’m a conservative, Christian, “undeclared”, female voter but I know how my female, liberal friends think and the GOP has their heads looking behind them and not ahead. I’d be thrilled to offer suggestions to the GOP on how they might be able to win in 2024 but old white men don’t seem to take suggestions from women very well.)
Ask young people old enough to vote, who their US representative is in congress. Ask them how many US senators each state has and how often they and the Representatives run. Just forget about the state level, that just confuses the younger generation. They may not know who the Governor is and almost certainly not the Lt. Gov. In my day you could not graduate unless you could name the three branches of government, it is no longer “my day” and doubtful they know them or if they do spout Legislative, Executive and judicial, they cannot explain the title to the job. My daughter’s co-workers were surprised Tuesday when she said she had to leave early to vote. (Election? what election?) But ask this wonderfully woke and brilliant generation if they are a Republican or Democrat, they will puff out their chest and announce that they are a “Democrat! Pro-choice and all that.” Thank you, Guilford County and Greensboro City schools. GOOD JOB! Raises all around.
Not only Greensboro, but also other major cities are all blue: Charlotte, RDU, even Asheville. Seems to me that anyone on the dole, or benefitting from govt cash, are moving to where they can get it.
I went to a big box grocery store yesterday; 27c/oz. for Cheerios, $5.50 for a 30oz jar of Hellman’s mayo, 10oz of Nabisco Vanilla Wafers for $4.50. And so on. How can anyone grossing $15-20/hr survive? Two jobs?
And yet the faithful and indoctrinated voted for more of the same. The Press bears a huge responsibility for this decline. They are not doing their job.
There is nowhere to hide. Get out now, if you can.
It is a shame to see what’s happening. I always new Greensboro was a liberal cesspit but now they are dragging the rest of the county down with them. Can Summerfield, Oakridge, and Stokesdale join Rockingham county or form our own?
Interesting to see the vote totals for Manning and against Budd and the Supreme Court candidates are nearly identical. Lots of straight party line voting by Democrats.
Sad that there is no equilibrium in our city government, that the way it should be. This council has no restrictions on the way our tax dollars are used. They do not support our police. The representatives from East Greensboro do little or nothing for their constituents. Several on the council are part of non profits or organizations that benefit from our tax dollars. One council member lives in a high end retirement community that is a non profit and pay zero taxes but they vote on how our tax dollars are spent. Just a shame that GSO has gone so far left but it is what it is. The Rep party is doing little to change thinks in this area.
Just say which council member lives in the retirement community. Half of them are 20 years past retirement already.
I’m curious, when you talk about the council member that lives in a high end retirement community that is a non profit and pays zero taxes are you speaking of the council women that was all for the $250,000 slush fund the city manager wanted to give out to all the council members and twice that to our wonder Mayor? The one who said we should lower the standards for the police academy in order to get more minority police officers on the force? How is it she’s still here? How is it she doesn’t hear some of the people laughing out loud at her. I guess we’re doing it behind her back instead of to her face, but then she would probably laugh back at us and just say “I’m still here aren’t I.” Give me here slush fund and I would gladly move from the place in a heart beat.
The answer is pretty simple. It’s 2 things honestly
1. A lot of white people who are traditionally Republicans have moved out of the city. And the county. Moving away doesn’t help the numbers
2. The GC GOP doesn’t engage with Black and Brown people. On any topic. And it shows in the voting. If the Republicans actually tried they would get better results