I blame Faircloth for this. If he hadn’t run such a crappy campaign, we’d have heard no more from this scumbag.
Naah, that’s the cursed seat. No incumbent won reelection to it since 1968. Sometimes it was a younger challenger who prevailed. Faircloth was younger than Terry Sanford, but Faircloth was no youngster. Edwards was “good looking” and slick, and ‘98 turned out to be a bust for us, and Faircloth looked like the old man that Sanford had 6 years prior. Edwards was so scared to run again in ‘04 that he was looking for any way out, and the VP gave him that out. It looks like Burr may finally break the curse this year.