In case you thought it was all bad news, the NCGOP released the following positive news for Republicans:

Yesterday, North Carolina Republicans maintained five seats in the U.S. House. North Carolinians re-elected Steve Troxler and Cherie Berry to the Council of State. Debbie Clary appears to have won the open Senate seat in N.C. Senate District 46 as Republicans picked up one seat in the N.C. Senate. North Carolina Republicans also held the line in the N.C. House and it appears that we will send the first African American Republican to the N.C. House as Pearl Burris Floyd appears to have won N.C. House District 110. Conservative N.C. Supreme Court Justice Bob Edmunds earned re-election. Bob N. Hunter also earned election to the N.C. Court of Appeals.