WaPo: “When Roy Cooper was narrowly elected North Carolina’s governor eight years ago, the prospects for a Democrat to get much done in the Tar Heel state were not exactly auspicious.
As the Assembly, a North Carolina-based digital publication, wrote last week: “No governor in modern state history has faced a legislature so bent on thwarting his every move — or seen his role so often reduced to trying to thwart his adversaries.”
Yet, as Cooper prepares to leave office after two terms, it added, “his shadow will loom over North Carolina politics for decades to come.””