ANOTHER poll. ANOTHER big Cooper lead.

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This is one of the worst broken records I’ve ever listened to.  (*The best fundraiser and best candidate to beat Cooper, eh?*) 

Top off your beverage of choice before proceeding with this:

Democrat Roy Cooper continues to lead Republican Michael Whatley in the race for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat in new polls that indicate broader support for Democrats in other races across the state as economic sentiment sours.  

Cooper led Whatley 50.4% to 41.4%, with 8.2% undecided, in a head-to-head poll released Wednesday by Opinion Diagnostics, a Boston-based polling company run by political advisors to Republican politicians in Massachusetts and North Carolina. The group surveyed about 830 North Carolina voters between April 21 and 24. The margin of error was about 3.5 percentage points. […]

Add this to a long list of bad polls for Whatley and a big fundraising lead for the former governor.  It’s going to be a long hard road to November.

I’ve long been convinced that the Raleigh establishment has some kind of non-aggression pact with Roy Cooper. They never seriously challenged Cooper as attorney general.  Even when he was running the state crime lab into the ground.  Pat McCrory didn’t want to talk about the crime lab in 2016 and ended up losing a close one to ol’ Coop.  Dan Forest just disappeared for a key stretch of the 2020 campaign.  Seriously.  It’s like those stories about point-shaving in sports.  Holding back in order to ensure a desired outcome.