Deborah Ross surpassed GOP Sen. Richard Burr by four points (46-42) in the new Siena College/New York Times Upshot poll.

This is the collaboration’s first poll of the North Carolina Senate race, but it follows a PPP survey released Wednesday that showed Ross tied with Burr 41-41 after she had trailed Burr in a dozen previous polls, albeit by increasingly slimmer and slimmer margins. Ross has been on a slow-but-steady upward trajectory in North Carolina for months—the perfect place to be heading into the final stretch of the contest.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper also notched a decisive 8-point lead (50-42) in the Siena/Upshot poll. In yesterday’s PPP's survey, Cooper was up 5 points over GOP Gov. Pat McCrory. As PPP wrote:

For the first time this entire cycle PPP finds a clear leader in the race to be North Carolina's next Governor: Roy Cooper.

I'll just say it, I like the way North Carolina is trending.

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