U.S. Sen. Richard Burr leads over a hypothetical challenger.
In a poll by Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, the Winston-Salem Democrat received 43 percent, while Secretary of State Elaine Marshall received 35 percent. Twenty-two percent were undecided.
Burr is running for re-election in 2010. No Democrat has officially challenged him, although Attorney General Roy Cooper is widely expected to run. Marshall ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic Senate primary in 2002.
Paired against a generic Democratic opponent in the same poll, Burr did roughly the same, garnering 42 percent to 38 percent who would back the Democrat.
"This poll is just more confirmation of what we've found every time we've looked at Richard Burr," said PPP president Dean Debnam, calling him "very vulnerable" next year.
The automated survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted March 12-15. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percent.
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