North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr remains an unknown quantity to a large chunk of state voters, despite five years in office, according to an Insider Advantage/Majority Opinion Research poll conducted June 22.
Public Policy Polling also has found Burr with low popularity ratings in North Carolina and a similar percent of voters with no opinion of Burr - it's latest poll registered the Republican's approval rating at 35 percent with 31 percent undecided.
PPP has been in a feud with Burr over the poll numbers and their reliability, given the firm's Democratic allegiance. Insider Advantage, however, is a non-partisan subscription-based government news service, headed up by Matt Towery, a former Republican legislator in Georgia and one-time campaign chairman for former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Towery said that Burr's low public profile is "not unusual ... this far out from their last election."
"People just don't see them everyday on TV. Once they run for reelection and take to the airwaves, those undecided numbers decrease." But, he added, "Sen. Burr will have to mount a spirited campaign when he runs in 2010." Democrats are certainly eying the race, but have yet to attract a top-tier candidate, despite their conviction that Burr is vulnerable.
-Emily Cadei
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Don't make the same mistake that Elizabeth Dole made. Get back to the state as often as you can and start glad-handin', make yourself known. Dole's problem was trying to represent NC from the Watergate Hotel!
Posted by: NObama
| June 25, 2009 5:47 PM
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