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Just in case the GOP legislators were "tuning out" all those folks who spoke their minds during recent regulatory meetings:

An overwhelming 83 percent of voters agreed that "protecting North Carolina's air and water is important to attracting good jobs to the state." A majority of voters, 54 percent, supported keeping the existing sales tax as a way to avoid the deepest cuts in parks and open space funding. About half the respondents, 48 percent, said they would support raising permit fees on polluters to help balance the state budget.

Here's a link to the PPP Poll in question.

PPP's Tom Jenson weighs in on Burr, courtesy of Progressive Pulse, below the fold

Scholars across America who study the news industry won't be surprised by the resurgence of partisan news preferences reported today by Public Policy Polling. The ironic headline, "Fox leads in trust," brings into full view the elasticity of truth, as well as the high cost of poor education.

In an otherwise interesting column today about North Carolina's US Senate race, Jack Betts writes:

But Francis De Luca of the Civitas Institute, more aligned with Republicans, noted recently that his polls show Burr consistently maintaining a lead "outside the margin of error against any of the announced candidates."

GOTV efforts are especially critical tomorrow for Chapel Hill's mayoral candidates. Mark Kleinschmidt trails Matt Czaikowski by one point. Tom Jensen does note that the polling does not include cell phone only users which means a lot of students aren't being polled. For full results go to PPP's blog.

There's still time to knock on doors and make phone calls and volunteer to greet voters at the polls for Mark. I'm sure Jake will be here momentarily to provide us with all the particulars.

Senator Richard Burr appears to be struggling with the polls that keep returning the news that most North Carolinians don't know who the heck he is. A United States Senator and he might as well be their UPS delivery person.

His poll numbers would probably be higher.

A few weeks ago, Burr responded to the early polling results:

"I think it's ridiculous to go through hypothetical head-to-heads," Burr said.

"The next election is not even something I'm thinking about. Nor should I, until I know who I'm running against," he said.

Burr said he hasn't run any of his own polls yet.

Today Public Policy Polling tested a large number of potential challengers to Richard Burr for US Senate in 2010.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-possible-challengers...

Public Policy Polling posted poll results last week showing that Elizabeth Dole's popularity continues to dwindle. I'm usually not one to rub salt in wounds, but I have such strong negative feelings for Elizabeth Dole I simply can't resist doing it just this once. Even Republicans are souring on the old carpetbagger.

Public Policy Polling has released a poll with a hypothetical head-to-head match up between Senator Richard Burr and N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper. If the election were held today it appears that Roy Cooper would run away with it.