He might not be running for election this cycle, but Richard Burr is already getting a look at the work he has ahead of him for his 2010 re-election bid. A recent poll conducted by Public Policy Polling showed that Burr is not only enjoying devastatingly low approval ratings (27%), most voters(46%) don't really know how they feel about him.
Wow. He's been in office four years and he hasn't made enough of an impact on the voters in North Carolina for them to know how they feel about him. Ouch.
Tom Jensen has this to say:
That fact makes Burr pretty vulnerable for reelection in two years. Incumbency is a huge advantage, but much less so when the voters don't even really know who you are. And a 46% 'not sure' rating for a US Senator shows he's not doing much to attract the voters' attention.
I haven't really paid much attention to Burr. I must be living under a rock because I wasn't aware that he had made it on a shortlist for John McCain's choices for vice president.
For real? You've got to be kidding me.
When a man with a 27% approval rating and a 46% don't know/don't care rating makes it on the VP shortlist you know the Republican Party is sucking wind.
Brrrrrrrrr
That's cold, dude.
He is a Burrden on the State.
I am really bad at puns. :D
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
Another
The voters will not be Burreaved when he leaves office.
a friend of mine had a lifesize cutout of Michael Jordan
and when she brought it home and stood it up, her Sheltie barked and growled at it until she knocked it over and showed him it was two dimensional; he laughed at it and wagged his tail then.
I'm pretty sure Richard Burr is a cardboard cutout.
Progressive Democrats of North Carolina
The sad thing is
Of our 2 senators 'from' NC, Burr is the better one.
I met Burr in DC a couple of years ago.
I went with an advocacy group from the NC Association for the Education of Young Children. I wrote about it here.
No cardboard cutout, that's for sure. That said, he was more interested in talking about himself than listening to his constituents. I suppose that could be a pitfall for politicians. In my opinion, he had very little understanding of big picture issues, and depended heavily on his aides (who were quite knowledgeable) to answer most of the questions we asked that were not about himself.
Hearing that he is shortlisted for VP would worry me if I thought that McCain had a chance of winning. Burr would add nothing to the ticket, however, and would be a foolish choice for the Republicans. Hmm. Maybe they should choose him!
Can we, instead, start talking about "for the good of North Carolina?" --Leslie H.
Pointing at Naked Emperors