Civitas Poll Romney Leads Obama Nc: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the WWAY Civitas Poll is and who runs it

This ballot sits in an unusual corner of the North Carolina voting landscape. Most public votes in the state are business rankings, but this one is a horserace poll wrapped in a television station's election coverage. WWAY, the broadcaster behind wwaytv3.com, publishes the page under its VOTE 2012 banner, and the station runs the whole vote inside its own site instead of handing it to an outside balloting service. That detail matters for supporters: there is no third-party platform with its own account system sitting between a voter and the station.

The poll's substance comes from the Civitas Institute, a survey organization whose finding the page reports directly. According to the page, the survey showed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney leading Democratic incumbent Barack Obama by nine percent among North Carolina voters. The public vote attached to that reporting gives readers a way to weigh in on the same question the newsroom is covering.

Geographically the program is statewide. WWAY's newsroom organizes its coverage across the Carolinas, with dedicated county sections for Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover and Pender counties, but the poll finding itself is framed for North Carolina voters as a whole. No single city anchors the ballot.

Facts about this program

The dated story of the ballot, editions and window

The confirmed timeline for this program has two distinct stretches. A ballot was published in 2012, which is the year the page's own title references through the VOTE 2012 banner. The program then reappears in the station's pages for 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Those later years are why the program is treated as recurring annually, though the gap between the 2012 edition and the 2023 return means nobody should describe it as an unbroken yearly tradition.

The voting month is November. Beyond the month, WWAY has not printed day-level opening and closing times, a category list, or any per-supporter limit for this ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same holds for any platform round dates, since the station runs no separate promotion schedule for this market.

What can be said about eligibility comes from a fragment of the page text itself, which references having voted in 2006 or 2008 or being newly registered after November 5, 2008. That language points to a tie between participation and North Carolina voter registration, but it is historical phrasing from the page rather than a current published rule. For the cycle now running, whatever the live ballot prints about who may take part is the whole rulebook. Treat the station's page as the single authority and read it fresh each time the window approaches.

How a supporter actually votes on this ballot today

Voting here is deliberately simple because the station runs the ballot on its own website. A supporter goes to the VOTE 2012 page on wwaytv3.com, reads the poll finding the newsroom is reporting, and uses whatever submission control the page presents. There is no outside platform to join, no separate account to create on a balloting vendor, and no intermediary step between the supporter and WWAY's own systems.

Because the station publishes no written rule list for this ballot, the page itself is the only instruction sheet. Whatever residency language, ballot options and submission limits appear on the day are the operative ones. If the page asks for a detail such as a name or an email address, supply exactly what is requested and nothing further, and treat any request for payment as a signal that the page being used is not the station's real ballot.

After submitting, look for the acknowledgment the page gives, whether that is a confirmation message, a changed result display or a redirect. If the screen shows nothing, the submission may not have registered, so a supporter can try once more and then stop. Hammering the control does not help and may count against the result. Supporters who want broader tactics for public votes generally, rather than for this station's poll specifically, can read the votes guide for methods that transfer across organizers.

How this ballot differs from its North Carolina neighbours

Set beside the other public votes on this site's North Carolina slate, the WWAY Civitas Poll stands apart on almost every axis. Its neighbours are business and reader-choice rankings: Best of North Carolina, the Charlotte Magazine Best of the Best Awards, the Daily Reflector Best Of Pitt County, the Fayetteville Community's Choice Awards, Best of Chowan County and Best of Haywood.

Those programs ask supporters to pick businesses, usually restaurants, shops and service providers, and most of them are anchored to a city or a county. The WWAY ballot instead asks about a presidential race, reports a named survey organization's finding, and speaks to the whole state rather than to any single town. Its host is a broadcaster publishing election coverage, not a publication running an annual readers' choice franchise.

The practical difference for a supporter or a business is in what the ballot rewards. A placement in a best-of ranking can be promoted by the winning business for a year, while a horserace poll result is news that ages quickly. Someone comparing these programs should also compare their publishers directly: each neighbour answers to its own editor and its own rules, and WWAY's ballot answers only to the station. Nothing on this page transfers a result, a rule or a date from the Civitas Poll onto any of the business rankings listed above.