It may be hundreds of miles away from the site of the still-leaking Deepwater Horizons rig, but the politics of America’s worst oil spill has already made its way up the eastern seaboard to North Carolina. Sen. Richard Burr (R) — a one-term incumbent on the long end of the list of targets for November — is coming under fire from Democrats over his continued support for offshore drilling even as speculation mounts that oil from the BP spill could land on Carolina beaches before all is said and done.
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