(East Coast) Kind of Blue

Are you all reading FiveThirtyEight.com?  Good, that's what I thought.  Anyway, when I check in on that page, the map in the upper right hand corner always catches my eye:

When I look at it, I always get nervous that the light blue (read: Obama as a slight favorite) state on the Eastern Seaboard is on the Commonwealth of Virginia, a key state for Obama's roadmap to the White House.  

Then I realize that the light blue state is North Carolina, and   At first, I relax.  Then, I realize: North Carolina!  What a glorious day that Virginia is comfortably, for the time being, in the Dems' column, and North Carolina, home of Jesse Helms and the Greensboro sit-ins, is trending that way, too.