NC: Public Policy Polling: Burr consistently leads all Dems

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Burr is very, very lucky that he is up for re-election in this environment.

Potentially lucky. He's even weaker than Patty Murray in terms of incumbency - the atmosphere might not even help him in the end.

He has got a pretty effective radio ad stressing the fact that he offered an alternative Health Care plan which was ignored, and his "clear and consistent" leadership. It hits key populist notes and platitudes. An effective way to start out in my opinion. Meanwhile Cunningham is running TV ads about his service in the military, he mentions 911 and how he joined after it. Its also pretty effective, however I don't think he is going to win the primary. I think Marshall will be the nominee and she is very similar to Bev Perdue in many ways which won't go over very well.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Burr is on TV now running ads with "common folk" talking about Burr's wonderful consituent services and his support for veterans and their families once they come home.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Burr 2010. I'm gonna get involved in his campaign. I want to help him win. He is the greatest Senator in North Carolina since Jesse Helms.

racist

No I'm not. I don't support Helms civil rights stances. I'm may be southern, but I'm still too northern to support slavery or racism.

You are stupid JC, Helms was a bigot and would have never won a race in NC today. Burr, himself isn't that bad but NC could do a whole lot better when it comes to a senator.

A bigot to you, a hero to me.

How the  can that evil bigot be a hero to anyone that isn't a bigot? If he is your hero then move to MS you will fit in better then in NC..

I'm pretty sure I can live anywhere I want, and don't have to continue thep oor-voting decisions this state has made in the pass 2 election cycles. (2006 +08)

Thank God for NC that there are not alot of bigots like you voting anymore. Even alot of the Republicans in NC don't like Helms.

I wouldn't be so sure. The GOP base in the state is still in the area of Western NC in the Charlotte Suburbes, areas around Greenville, Winston-Salem, and the Mountains. They didn't call them "Jessecrats" for nothing. Except for McHenry's district all of that area was Democratic untill Helms' 1972 victory.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

One more thing. Cunningham is now trying to ply the Anti-Trade card with an ad showing brick buildings with words China, Honduras and Indonesia on them in big letters and then saying Burr voted 15 times to send jobs out of the country.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Devilman, that's a lie. I can name a 100 of my republican neighbors who liked Helms. North Carolina isn't Liberal-falooza yet.

Al Franken is the Dems Helms.

Well, you must live in a very rural part of the state, I'm not saying there aren't people in North Carolina that doesn't like Helms, but I was saying that everywhere outside the rural backwoods most if not almost all don't like Helms.

I wouldn't be sweeping in that assertion. Maybe in places like Cary and other areas that have a lot of Northern Transplants and in the inner cities. But among older North Carolinians, and in the areas of the NC that are the GOP base, which I described above, Helms is probably fairly popular in this state. I think you are setting yourself up for a fall.