The pick of North Carolina as the site for Hillary Clinton's first joint campaign appearance with President Obama this year underscores the shifting demographics that have turned a once conservative stronghold into one of the handful of competitive political battlegrounds. The change in the home of late GOP Sen. Jesse Helms -- a conservative icon -- was highlighted by Barack Obama's narrow win there in 2008 N.C. returned to the GOP fold in 2012 when Mitt Romney claimed its 15 electoral votes --
Source: Bloomberg Politics