Burr used to be thought of as being relatively sane, as NC Republicans go, but his response to Obama winning the state and Liddy getting canned has been to move further and further right. He's basically betting the whole farm on there being no economic recovery in this state and/or upon only angry teabaggers turning out for the midterms.

This NC Senate seat is weird. Nobody has held it for more than one term since Sam Ervin retired in 1974. One incumbent even committed suicide. The seat has bounced from one party to the other in every election. We'll see if Burr can beat the bad mojo of 36 years.

Although he was the junior Senator to a big name Senator (Dole), his approval rating is not low for the reasons stated in this article. He really is a poor Senator.

He walked lock-step with the Bush Administration, constantly cheerleading any and all directives that came out of the Rove PR office - including repeating GOP talking points verbatim. He pushed for all of Bush's spending plans and tax breaks that came up, but tried to halt any actions to decrease the damage of those ill-conceived plans.

And the main reason NC residents hold him in such low regard? Health Care. He is pushing his own health care bill while decrying how horrible the Democratic plan is. What is his plan? Let's keep doing what we are doing, maybe give a tax break for health care - including to those who make hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Oh, and guess which NC politician has received more money from the health care industry? If you guess "Burr", you are correct.

Elizabeth Dole was fired for being a political whore. I hope we can fire Richard Burr for the same reason.

All we needed was a candidate. We can definitely take this seat by 2010. Just cause the climate is bad now doesn't mean it won't be going way up in 2010 with HC passed and the economy imporving anlong with jobs being created.

Sorry - Elaine Marshall has a shot. She just announced this week.