On election day , Mitt Romney narrowly carried the state of North Carolina , winning 50.39 % of the vote to Barack Obama 's 48.35 % , a margin of 2.04 % . North Carolina was one of just two states ( along with Indiana ) which flipped from voting for Obama in 2008 to voting Republican in 2012 . Like Indiana , North Carolina had been a reliably Republican state prior to Obama 's 2008 win , having not previously gone Democratic since 1976 . Unlike Indiana , however , North Carolina was still considered a competitive swing state in 2012 , and both campaigns targeted it heavily , with the Democrats holding their convention in Charlotte , North Carolina . Mitt Romney was the first candidate since Zachary Taylor in 1848 to carry North Carolina while losing both Wake County and Mecklenburg County , which are the two most populous counties
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2012 Democratic National Convention
2012 United States presidential election in North Carolina