john dinan to start our conversation. thanks for giving a a short-time. tellus please see it like north carolina is a battleground state rex. >> there are several metrics you could make the case it was the most competitive state in 2008 and 2012 brought obama won by less than half of a percentage ron point that romney won by two percentage points 2012 see you could make a case said whether state laws that competitive with those elections. not surprising in 2016 is a continuation of looking at where they devote their resources of their times they have been devoting as much to visit north carolina's any of their state that is traditional battleground ohio, florida and right up there if you want to note the battleground state that is a battleground. >> secretary clinton was there on sunday and will be back with michelle obama. >> right here. as they say other states said the ohio enforce a in a pennsylvania and virginia in recent years are looking at these regular visits by the candidates but 2016 is a regular event to go see one of the candidates or the fam

john dinan studies politics and teaches at wake forest university in winston-salem, starting things offwe take a look at the battleground state of north carolina. thanks your time. john: good to be here, thank you. "washington-span's journal," live every day with news and policy issues that affect you. this week, we are focusing on presidential battleground states. tuesday morning, it is i what. -- iowa. the chief political reporter for "the day more and register" will talk about why iowa is a battleground state. party first vice chair will discuss the political layout of iowa and hillary clinton's chances of winning. and conservative talk radio host will talk about donald trump's chances of winning iowa. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal congo live at 7:00 a.m. eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. c-span,r: coming up on the debate between incumbent pennsylvania senator pat toomey and his democratic challenger katie mcginty. clinton and senator elizabeth warren campaign in manchester, new hampshire, and donald trump campaigns in tampa, florida. announcer:usierra, co

john dinan joining us. carol lives in glenville, north carolina. go ahead.r: thanks for having me on. callerng to address the about voter id to suppress votes. . it protects legal voters. voter idhe have that requirement in many states. i voted for a long time in the state of georgia where we had voter id, and it seemed to be just fine. the say these people that are there ishis say that not a way for everyone to have an id. europe think -- i cafe who it is that doesn't have an id these days. passed by the legislature made it easy to get id, to see the people signed on for a voter id. host: thanks, carol. doubt that theno voter id issue has been a very contentious one in north carolina. ever since the legislature passed it in 2013, which would a photo idd requirement, it has been a matter of political debate, a matter of legal finding. as the colorid, mentions, north carolina now does not have a voter id or any voter id requirement to vote. respect, north carolina is now out of line with the majority of states, which now do have an id requirement of some kind

host: john dinan from wake forest university is joining us and taking your calls.e start with lucio from raleigh, north carolina. our line for north carolina residents. good morning. is, themy question republican party has sent a message in north carolina to african-americans and that message is we don't want you to vote. we hope you don't vote. we going to make it difficult for you to vote. through three lawsuits, they spent like $9 million trying to suppress the vote. i want to know why does the republican party seem to put the party over the people? host: professor dimon? guest: there's no doubt north carolina, not the only state texas was also in the center of several legal battles. challenge, north carolina in 2013 past a reform law. it had a number of components. it imposed voter id requirement for the first time. reduced the number of days of early voting from 17 days to 10 days and eliminated same-day registration. the ability to register to vote and vote on the same day. some other provisions as well. an omnibus bill challenged in federal court. initially

john dinan joining us. carol lives in glenville, north carolina. go ahead. caller: thanks for having me on. callerng to address the about voter id to suppress votes. . it protects legal voters. voter idhe have that requirement in many states. i voted for a long time in the state of georgia where we had voter id, and it seemed to be just fine. the say these people that are there ishis say that not a way for everyone to have an id. europe think -- i cafe who it is that doesn't have an id these days. passed by the legislature made it easy to get id, to see the people signed on for a voter id. host: thanks, carol. doubt that theno voter id issue has been a very contentious one in north carolina. ever since the legislature passed it in 2013, which would a photo idd requirement, it has been a matter of political debate, a matter of legal finding. as the colorid, mentions, north carolina now does not have a voter id or any voter id requirement to vote. respect, north carolina is now out of line with the majority of states, which now do have an id requirement of som

first, wake forest university professor john dinan joins us to talk about voter enthusiasm in the stated the political makeup of north carolina and the chances of donald trump winning there with north carolina republican party executive director dallas woodhouse. and later, talking about politics co-public per gary pearce talks about the clinton campaign and what he's doing to win in the tar heel state. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. isit ncicap.org] host: it is the "washington journal" for october 24, 15 days before election day. today on the c-span network, hillary clinton in manchester, new hampshire. she will appear alongside senator elizabeth warren. you can see that event live on c-span. donald trump received his first major newspaper endorsement. other stories highlighting the fact that the paper was purchased by sheldon adelson, a longtime supporter of republicans. we want to hear from you in our first 45 minutes on your thoughts on wh