Richard Burr (Getty)
If North Carolina's Democratic Attorney General
Roy Cooper decides to challenge first-term Republican Sen.
Richard Burr in 2010, the race "automatically becomes a tossup," according to
Public Policy Polling survey conducted April 8-11.
Cooper leads Burr 41 percent to 37 percent with 22 percent undecided. The margin of error is 3.1 points. That doesn't sound like a whopping lead, but PPP's Dean Debnam says, "It's quite unusual for an incumbent who doesn't have major ethical problems to trail an unannounced challenger."
Roy Cooper
Thirty-five percent of voters approve of Burr's job performance compared to 31 percent who do not, with 33 percent undecided. Cooper has a favorable to unfavorable ratio of 41 percent to 20 percent with 40 percent undecided.
PPP also matched Burr against seven-term Democratic Rep. Mike McIntyre and Burr leads there by 39 percent to 34 percent with 27 percent undecided.
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