Keever won Buncombe County (Asheville) by a considerable margin, no surprise.

Taylor won the rural mountain counties by a wide margin, also no surprise, given the amount of pork he's brought home.

Taylor buried Keever in Henderson County. It was the old folks in the retirement homes in Hendersonville that won it for Taylor.

Media access is extremely difficult in NC-11. The only local TV station is Sinclair owned. All other stations broadcast from SC, and do not cover NC politics.

The way to win NC-11 is for the Democrats to call the ethically-challenged Taylor the crook that he is. They also need to tie environmental issues to economic issues (think tourism in the NC mountains) and bring the debate back from the hot button issues to the pocketbook issues that affect people's daily lives.

Keever tried to piggyback off of Inez Tenenbaum's strategy in SC of attacking the 23% sales tax proposal that Taylor and DeMint co-sponsored. It didn't work for either of them.