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10 Questions for Elaine Marshall
By not in system - AOL NewsEditor's note: AOL News is asking U.S. House and Senate candidates to answer 10 questions about themselves and their views on two big issues. Democrat Elaine Marshall, elected as North Carolina secretary of state in 1997, is running for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Richard Burr. The Fun Stuff 1) Everyone is angry with politicians in Washington. Why do you want to be one of them? Americans are angry at Washington because the politicians have stopped listening to us. I'd like to change that. My No. 1 priority is to make government work for ordinary Americans again, not against us. 2) ...
N.C. Senate Race: Elaine Marshall Takes Outsider Label, Richard Burr Takes the Lead
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It wasn't easy. Elaine Marshall was explaining her position on job creation through a haze of savory smoke pouring from the meat cooking a few feet away. After a while the wind shifted, and a young woman attending the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church tailgate party nodded in approval at Marshall's focus on aid to small businesses, an issue the candidate, former owner of a card and gift shop, loves to talk about. But 23-year-old Octavia Dildy said she is still weighing her voting options. The North Carolina secretary of state who wants to win a U.S. Senate seat in ...
GOP's Richard Burr Takes Big Lead Over Elaine Marshall in N.C. Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyNorth Carolina GOP Sen. Richard Burr, despite past polls that have shown him with sagging job approval numbers, is leading Democrat Elaine Marshall by 58 percent to 34 percent among likely voters, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted Sept. 10-13 for WRAL-TV in Raleigh. Six percent support Libertarian Michael Beitler and 2 percent are undecided. Two months ago, SurveyUSA had Burr's lead at 46 percent to 36 percent. Marshall, the Secretary of State, is suffering from much lower support from fellow Democrats than Burr gets from Republicans -- she gets 65 percent of Democrats while Burr gets ...
GOP's Richard Burr Has Modest Lead Over Elaine Marshall in N.C. Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican Sen. Richard Burr leads Democratic challenger Elaine Marshall by 43 percent to 38 percent, with 6 percent for Libertarian Michael Beitler and 13 percent undecided, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Aug. 27-29. The margin of error is 3.6 points. That's a slightly bigger lead than PPP's early August poll that had Burr ahead by a statistically-insignificant 39 percent to 37 percent, but the earlier number was of all registered voters. Now, that election day is getting closer, PPP has started surveying likely voters. While Burr's numbers as an incumbent are hardly ...
Celebrating 'Suffrage to Success': Are All Women Invited to the Party?
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCHARLOTTE, North Carolina – As the board of the National Women's Political Caucus met here over the weekend, it was again an occasion to discuss the question: "Do you have to be pro-choice to be considered a feminist?" The leader of a group dedicated to electing progressive, pro-choice women takes her time answering. "It's good to see women becoming leaders," Lulu Flores, president of the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC), told me. "Even conservative women should be seen as leaders," she said, noting that women have traditionally been the behind-the-scenes workhorses of political ...
Richard Burr's Negative Marks from Voters Hurt Him in N.C. Senate Poll
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFirst-term GOP Sen. Richard Burr holds a statistically-insignificant lead over Democrat Elaine Marshall in North Carolina's Senate race, an outcome that probably has more to do with Burr's high negatives among voters than progress by Marshall, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted July 27-31. Burr is ahead of Marshall, the secretary of state, by 39 percent to 37 percent with 7 percent supporting Libertarian Michael Beitler and 17 percent undecided. Beitler draws 4 percent of Democratic votes and 6 percent of Republicans. Burr is getting somewhat stronger support from the ...
Alvin Greene, South Carolina's Mystery Senate Candidate, Draws a Crowd
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyMANNING, S.C. -- For his first public speech, Alvin Greene didn't travel very far. He didn't have to. Everyone came to his hometown. The surprise South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate spoke to the Manning branch of the NAACP's third-Sunday-of-the-month meeting yesterday, and attendance was good. The crowd -- friends, media and curious South Carolina voters -- filled the more than 300 chairs set up in Manning Junior High School, with spillover in the bleachers, as Greene laid out his plans to beat the odds and Republican Sen. Jim DeMint in November. "South Carolina and America cannot ...
GOP's Richard Burr Leads in N.C. Senate Race, but Not by Much
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFirst-term Republican Sen. Richard Burr has an unimpressive 38 percent to 33 percent lead over Democrat Elaine Marshall, the secretary of state, with Libertarian Michael Beitler clocking in at 10 percent, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted June 26-27. Twenty percent are undecided. The margin of error is 4.4 points. Burr also has less-than-stellar job approval numbers with 39 percent disapproving of his performance, 34 percent approving and 28 percent not sure of their opinion. But Marshall must contend with the fact that 58 percent of the state's voters do not know enough ...
Richard Burr Leads Both Potential Democratic Rivals in N.C. Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFirst-term GOP Sen. Richard Burr is running ahead of Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and former state Sen. Cal Cunningham in North Carolina's Senate race as the attention the two Democrats received during the first round of their primary fight has begun to fade, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted June 4-5. Marshall had beat Cunningham, who is the choice of national Democratic leaders to be the party's candidate, but did not get the necessary 40 percent of the vote to avoid a June 22 runoff. Burr leads Marshall by 46 percent to 39 percent with 16 percent undecided and ...
Elaine Marshall, Cal Cunningham Tied in North Carolina Senate Runoff
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyNorth Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, who bested former state Sen. Cal Cunningham in last week's Democratic Senate primary by 36 percent to 27 percent, now finds herself in a tie with him as they head toward a June 22 runoff, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted May 8-10. Marshall and Cunningham, who is the preferred candidate of national party leaders, each have 36 percent in the poll with 28 percent undecided. The runoff was triggered because neither notched the necessary 40 percent in the primary. Read the Politics Daily piece by Mary Curtis on the ...
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