Predicktion from Mo: Four to six months after the next election look for Bev and her husband to "amicably divorce" without going court with an "undisclosed settlement that satisfies both parties". Keep it in your memory banks. It will happen.

First-term North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue will announce Thursday she won’t seek reelection, multiple sources have confirmed to POLITICO.

Saddled with low poll ratings, Perdue, a Democrat, was the most endangered incumbent governor of the cycle and faced grim prospects in the fall against Republican Pat McCrory, a former Charlotte mayor who is expected to formally launch his bid in the coming weeks.