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A question for Elaine Marshall: "Has the DSCC, despite all their happy talk, blown your campaign off?"

After that first Kissell campaign, who could even question the national party's strategic sense?

By this time in 2008, serious DSCC support had materialized for Kay Hagan. The ads weren't the only reason Hagan won, but they helped.

Richard Burr does not have Dole's long list of vulnerabilities and he is the clear favorite, but he doesn't seem invincible, and Elaine Marshall is not to be underestimated.

Yet Marshall, who surely got the DSCC's attention by beating its primary favorite, is all but invisible on the organization's website. 

Those who don't learn from the past, etc.

It's one poll, and it's Rasmussen, but still:

Elaine Marshall appears to have received a bounce in support following her Democratic Primary runoff victory Tuesday and is now even with incumbent Republican Richard Burr in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race.

Marshall law:

The loss was a blow to the national Democratic establishment, which had recruited Cunningham, viewing the more centrist, young Iraq War veteran as a stronger potential opponent for Burr.

Marshall carried the counties in green, Cunningham's are blue; behold the awesome power of the Triad region over state politics!

Results:

Marshall appears to have opened a large can of whupass on Cunningham.

D'Annunzio trails by a wide margin in NC8.

Bill "BP Conspiracy" Randall leads in NC13.

Cal Cunningham is running for the US Senate seat held by Richard Burr.

I've never quite bought the Burr-is-easy-pickings meme. Not to say he's unbeatable, of course, and I know the polls say the Democrats have a good shot, but I just don't sense the same weakness I did with Liddy Dole. Burr's been much more visible in the state than was Dole, and he's running in what looks to be a better year for Republicans than 2008.

At the least it should be a lively primary.

Richard Burr is blogging at his Senate website, complete with hyperlinks. Good for him, good for us.

The hard part is keeping it up, as one of Burr's possible 2010 opponents, Heath Shuler, has discovered.

Link via a new site, ConservativeNC.com.