This Week in Statehouse Action: Carolina (and beyond) In My Mind edition

Election Day is just over two weeks away!

Excited yet?

[pauses to mildly hyperventilate]

With that EDay countdown rocketing towards single digits, I’m sliding into your inbox to talk (mostly) about the state that’s arguably at the center of the down ballot political universe right now.

And that’s not to give any of the states I mentioned in this space last week short shrift–Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania are all home to incredibly essential state legislative contests on Nov. 8.

But today, I posit a different state as a nexus of essential down-ticket action this year:

North Carolina

Carolina Calling

Last week I dug into the importance of Democrats preventing GOP lawmakers from winning veto-proof majorities in the North Carolina House and Senate.

Remember, Republicans need to flip only four House seats and two Senate seats to win veto-proof supermajoritie…