Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) leads his Democratic challenger 45 percent to 41 percent in a new poll out Tuesday from Emerson College.
The poll found 5 percent of respondents would choose someone else and 8 percent were undecided.
Burr, a relatively popular two-term incumbent, has consistently led former state Rep. Deborah Ross (D) in the Senate race, although the gap between the candidates has shrunk in recent months.
This is the first poll from Emerson College on the North Carolina race. Last week, a CNN poll of the race found Burr ahead 49-46, while a poll from Monmouth found Burr leading 45-43.
Democrats believe North Carolina is on the table, and as Clinton’s lead there began to widen in June and July, the possibility of carrying the state as Obama did in 2008 seemed within reach. However, an Emerson College general election poll out Tuesday found Clinton down two points to Trump, 45 percent to 43 percent.
The Emerson College poll was conducted Aug. 27-29 and surveyed 800 likely general election voters using an automated survey on landline phones. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.4 percent.
TPM’s PollTracker Average has Ross trailing Burr 43.2 percent to 47.1 percent.
As the MSM continues to harp on Sec. Clinton’s emails and the Clinton Foundation, they will manage to create the impression (in their desire for the monies that come from the proverbial ‘horse race’ political contest) that there is some sort of equivalency between these non-issues and the cornucopia of lies, deceit, fraud and constant scandal surrounding the Trumpalooza’ Campaign and the incompetent swamp that it has become. They will publish every tweet, every Trump mouthpiece’s lies and every innuendo and outrageous blurb against Clinton that comes from the traveling Trump Freakshow.
The big monies in the GOP are now, in most cases, ignoring Trump and pouring money into the down ballot contests. It’s imperative to get out the vote
OK, another stand-alone article about the Emerson college landline only polls. While I am tiring of these headlines, this stands to remind us all that turn-out will be key, particularly for these down-ticket races. Let’s not lose the opportunity that we have by becoming complacent. We need to get every Dem-leaning voter to the polls in November. Turn-out is key! GOTV!
I’m mid-50’s and I grudgingly admit we still have a land-line… The thing is, even we never answer it! Especially during polling season.
[Why? We have had the number nearly 25 years–every doctor’s office, every service/subscription has that number as our point of contact. We also have foreign relatives, who occasionally call, so we would have to pay high international cell rates when they call. Finally, we still have a security system hardwired to the landline. The security service has other options, but they cost almost the same monthly fee. So we keep it, but only listen to the messages.]
10 years younger, and we have the same set up - a landline that goes unanswered unless it is a call from one of our kids’ schools.
I spent the first 26 years of my life in Ye Olde South, before becoming a California refugee (oh, Glory days!). Unless things have changed (yeah, right), Southerners have this funny apprehension about their womenfolk running things. I’m not saying this plays a role in that GOP nutter coming out on top, I’m just sayin’ maybe Dems need to run the menfolk in the Southern states for a little while longer, until the angry old white people die off some more. A lot of Southerners are still struggling to join us in the 21st Century, bless their hearts.