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Another poll, another source of concern for North Carolina Sen. Richard M. Burr. A new poll by conservative-leaning think tank Civitas Institute conducted March 16 to 19 confirmed what many others have found - Burr continues to struggle with name recognition.

Fifty percent of registered voters told Civitas they either has no opinion or were unaware of the first-term Republican senator. That is down from 54 percent when Civitas asked the same question in January. Thirty-seven percent held a favorable opinion of Burr in the most recent poll, which held steady from January.

The Civitas poll also showed Burr trailing Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper 41 percent to 38 percent in a hypothetical match-up. The margin of error in the poll was plus or minus four percent. The poll showed that Cooper is also an unknown quantity with voters -- 66 percent of respondents said they either had no opinion or were not aware of the attorney general.