While N.C. media continue to ignore him, Sean Haugh is getting national media coverage in his U.S. Senate race. The Washington Post sent a reporter here to interview Haugh, and ran a profile on the race in Saturday's edition. The online version featured clips from several of his YouTube videos.

Excerpts from the article:

So far, Haugh’s campaign barely exists anywhere but on YouTube. But it is doing surprisingly well in a high-stakes Senate contest in which candidates and outside groups have already spent more than $15 million.

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In his messages, Haugh comes off as folksy and erudite, funny and earnest.

“In Syria, we’re supporting Sunni extremist rebels against government forces, but in Iraq, we’re supporting government forces against the Sunni extremists. How crazy is that?” he asks in one of the segments.

Republicans in North Carolina say Haugh is drawing support from Democrats who have lost faith in President Obama and Hagan; Democrats say he is benefiting from the fact that 54 percent of Republicans voted for someone other than Tillis, the GOP challenger, in the May primary.

Read the full article here.