Voters split on Burr, Democrats unknown in Senate race (North Carolina Race)

Raleigh News & Obstructor ^ | 02/18/10 | bniolet

[NCDragon]

Voters are evenly split when asked to rate U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, according to a new poll by Public Policy Polling.

The firm asked 788 likely voters for an opinion on Burr's job performance and 35 percent said they approved while 35 percent disapproved. The remaining 30 percent were undecided.

As you can see on our new Polling Central feature, Burr's approval rating is lower than former Sen. Elizabeth Dole's was at the same point in the election cycle. (Polling Central is interactive. To compare Dole and Burr, just click the boxes for Dole's poll results.) In February 2008, PPP found that 43 percent of voters approved of Dole while 32 percent disapproved.

[Leg Olam]

“Burr leads the three major Democrats’

I assume they are Jefferson, Hamilton and Clay.

[ken5050]

Strange year in NC..the Tarheels won’t even make the big dance..

[TommyDale]

Burr has been a huge disappointment. He is one of the three reasons I dropped my registration as a Republican. The other two reasons were Elizabeth Dole and John McCain.

[MrDem]

These stores should have [Walking Dead Man] alerts in the Titles.

[Niteranger68]

NC is now full of transplanted illegal Mexicans and liberal yankees. I fear we will be the exception to the possible Republican tidal wave in November. I guess dumba$$es gotta live somewhere.

[personalaccts]

I think his goal is 51%

[Ranjit]

It is going to be hard to win but there is a big chance that African Americans will not come out in huge numbers like 2008. Also, there is a huge disappointment in college communities on Obama. I don’t even think half of the college students that turned out in 2008 will come to polls in nov of 2010. It is pathetic but this is the way, Burr might win.

Public policy group is freaking accurate. It was only organization which predicted NC presidential elections in 2008. They said, it would be 1% and the final result was obama won by 1%.

[MBB1984]

Yes, indeed. I have never seen so many illegal Mexicans as in North Carolina. North Carolina is becoming Vermont/California south.

It is sad that North Carolina has fallen dramatically since it was the home state of Jesse Helms.

[PermaRag]

Burr may not be well-positioned to retain his Senate seat, but his status right now probably isn't as bad as it may seem.

Isn't PPP a far-left group that generates poll results designed to impress the Kos Kiddies? If so, add a healthy % to Burr's chances based on these bogus numbers.

That being said, it wouldn't hurt for Burr to be a little less invisible and a little more conservative.

[Ranjit]

Yes, they are liberals but their number is always accurate. PPP and Rasmussen are the two polling firms which has been very consistent in the recent months.

The reason they poll NC is to bring attention to north east media and also money from DNC. Because of these polls in 2008, obama campaign increased the number of visits of Obama and also took note of Elizabeth dole’s poor numbers.

If Burr, shows that he is real conservative he will win. If he plays moderate crap like McCain he will loose. Still, there is a huge majority of conservatives in NC

[PermaRag]

I haven't followed his Senate career much, but IIRC Burr was always a true-blue conservative during his House days. He just isn't much of an attention-getter, and after 6 years holding statewide office Burr shouldn't be quite as unknown as he seems to be.

I hope Burr does well in November, and it's tempting to say that if Jesse Helms could win here all those times, then any conservative (especially one less polarizing than Helms) such as Burr should have a cakewalk by comparison. We'll see....