Elaine Marshall

Debate season is in full swing, with match-ups almost every night across the country. And the way these things get hyped, you’d think the candidates were about to step into a literal boxing ring and start swinging, gloves off, no mercy.

Usually that’s not at all what happens.

As EMILY's List Political Director, I live and breathe polls: which candidate is up and which is down, which race is tightening, which congressional district is leaning Democratic this year.

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Elaine Marshall has picked up speed since her primary win last month and is edging ahead of incumbent Sen. Richard Burr in North Carolina. The latest poll has Marshall leading Burr 37% - 35%.

Sen. Burr ranks high on our list of the many out-of-touch Republicans -- you may remember his comment during the financial crisis, when he told his wife to "go to the ATM machine, and ... draw out everything it will let you take."

Elaine Marshall is headed to the general election! Elaine pulled off a decisive win in the Democratic run-off, and she'll go on to face entrenched GOP incumbent Richard Burr in the general election.

Elaine's fighting spirit has helped her become a true role model for women, defying the odds to become the first person in her family to graduate from college and the first woman in North Carolina to win statewide executive office.

It’s a first for EMILY’s List: we’re asking you to choose which of our candidates will be featured in a special fundraising appeal in October. Just a few days in, the amount of responses has been amazing, and there are already a few break-out stars. Here’s a sneak peek at the ongoing tally – this graphic represents your voting so far, and you still have time to weigh in!

An Elon University Poll was just released that must have given the Burr camp pause: when asked if Richard Burr deserved re-election, only 29 percent of respondents said he did. Ouch. If that weren’t enough, only 37 percent approve of the job Burr is doing. We second that emotion – it’s high time to elect Elaine Marshall to the U.S. Senate.

No one likes a lot of extra hot air in the summertime - not from their weatherman, and certainly not from their senator.

According to a recent poll, only 32% of voters approve of North Carolina Senator Richard Burr’s job performance. That's an approval rating lower than all but two of his colleagues in the Senate. It's great news for our candidate, Elaine Marshall -- polls are tightening in her bid to unseat Burr.

Exciting news! EMILY's List just backed North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall in her bid to unseat far-right GOP incumbent Senator Richard Burr. This is going to be one of the country's highest profile Senate races this fall -- and a top GOP priority -- and we're committed to helping Elaine put this seat in Democratic hands.

We all like a taste of the retro now and then: the fashions of “Mad Men,” re-releases of The Beatles albums, remakes of ‘70s sitcoms into movies. Then there are the times when you’re hit with something so retrograde, regressive, and offensive as to completely floor you. Case in point: Sen. DeMint’s comments at a rally in South Carolina, in which he declared that openly gay people or sexually active unmarried women shouldn’t be in our classrooms.