“I don’t think it will transform the Senate race, since Republican candidates traditionally have the advantage on the crime issue,” said Mr. McLennan, director of the Meredith Poll.
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They’re not quite as comfortable with that idea of change for change’s sake at the state level,” said David McLennan, a political science professor at Meredith College in Raleigh.
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