Deborah Ross out-campaigns a lazy Richard Burr, leaving Republicans nothing but desperate attacks

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) doesn't seem too interested in running for re-election, and that's allowing Democrat Deborah Ross to surge, making this a real horse race, and panicking Republicans.

To the frustration of national Republicans, Burr is for the most part sticking to the laidback routine he followed during his past two Senate campaigns, waiting until Congress recesses in early October before he starts stumping in earnest. […]

Ross is emerging as a sharp and canny campaigner, energetically traveling the state talking about jobs and needling the Senate intelligence committee chairman for absenteeism.

Burr has done one thing, though, and that's attack Ross with ads claiming she opposed a sex-offender registry when she was as head of the North Carolina ACLU, a job she left 14 years ago. Ross, however, was prepared for this attack, and has a response ad featuring former state Sen. Fountain Odom, who identifies himself as "the sponsor of the law creating the sex-offender registry," and says in the ad that "Deborah Ross helped me," and assisted in making the law stronger. 

Meanwhile, Ross is making real inroads where "a big chunk of the North Carolina electorate also admits not knowing Burr, despite his 12 years in the Senate and a decade before that in the House." That probably has something to do with that "laidback" approach Burr has been taking toward his state.

This is one that can definitely flip. Let's to our part help Ross finish with a win.

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