So lets review. McCain's national numbers are slipping. In North Carolina he is 19(?) points down to Rudy and 9 points down to Newt in the last poll I saw.
http://www.newsobserver.com/110/story/551591.html
He just got endorsed by a guy with slightly negative approval ratings. That is on top of his getting the help of both Ferrell Blount and Vinroot.

Does McCain realize that it is 2007 or is he still under the impression it is 1999? Is McCain going to even be in the race by time the primaries roll around?

3/9/2007 11:03:51 PM

burr is such a fucking chode. an endorsement by him is a negative in my book.

3/9/2007 11:08:24 PM

what makes you think that NC is any kind of bellweather for the republican primary?

3/9/2007 11:55:10 PM

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"bellweather"

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3/9/2007 11:57:20 PM

other than the combo of people like Jesse Helms on top of the new influx of Republicans from places like NJ and Michigan?

Besides, this isnt about his poll numbers in NC so much as it is about the hilarity of his campaign thinking that people like Burr and Blount actually add something.

3/10/2007 12:16:21 AM

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"Results 1 - 10 of about 80,500 for bellweather. (0.05 seconds) Did you mean: bellwether"

okay, fuck you.

3/10/2007 12:19:26 AM

^^ hmm. i guess i dont know much about Burr, to be honest. i moved from NC before he was elected.

Im gonna show my ignorance here, but I would think that, in the context of a republican primary, an endorsement from the republican US Senator, would be a net positive (however small) at least in that Senator's state.

whats up with Burr that makes this not the case?

3/10/2007 12:24:29 AM

he has no clout within the senate and is incredibly unpopular. 6 months ago he was tied for 80th in terms of popularity of sitting senators.

3/10/2007 11:16:35 AM

I can't wait for the liddy dole endoresement.

3/10/2007 11:36:18 AM

maybe she could run his campaign!!!

3/10/2007 12:29:36 PM

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"he has no clout within the senate"

well, he's about as new as a senator can be. he wasnt sworn in until 2005. not just anyone can wander in as a freshman senator and take charge of the chamber.

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" and is incredibly unpopular. 6 months ago he was tied for 80th in terms of popularity of sitting senators."

according to whom? a popularity contest among other senators? I'd like to see that poll. what if 79 senators are "really popular" and Burr is only "kinda popular". j/k, but not entirely. what's this really mean, you know?

I'm not tryign to be an argumentative prick (i know, i don't have to try) but this is the first ive heard of him being a pariah. (im kind of out of touch of NC politics lately)... is he unpopular amongst the NC republicans, and the NC voters in general?

do you think he is he in danger of losing the seat in 4 years? I'd love to see a democrat take back that seat.

3/10/2007 3:39:39 PM

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/reports/PPP_Report_012407.pdf

34 dissaprove 32 approve from late january

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollTrack.aspx?g=f7b05a1b-14a6-4abe-aca7-db82cfafc1ac
flirting with 44 percent approve and 44 dissaprove since at least august

Survey USA does this type of tracking on all the sitting senators, governors.
http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2006/100USSenator060221Net.htm
He is 83rd there, and that was from a year ago when he was more popular

3/10/2007 6:38:26 PM

he's a party shill and it's gotten him nothing.

i looked up his votes a while back and this dude almost NEVER strays from the republican majority (it was like one time out of one hundred votes)

at least dole occasionally strays from the party line.

3/10/2007 11:12:21 PM

when has she strayed?

3/10/2007 11:47:50 PM

why shoud I care? Nothing against Burr, but who cares? Do these kind of endorsements really swing any number of votes ever? I mean its not like Burr is the Pope or something.

3/10/2007 11:50:58 PM

^^i honestly don't remember, but a handful of times (not a lot, but notably more than burr)

3/11/2007 12:25:21 AM