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A great line on the Dems from HARDBALL host Chris Matthews on MSNBC:

MSNBC's Matthews: "The Democrats have got to stop giving up on the South and now they've got a guy with a real North Carolina accent, a guy who was born in South Carolina, the son of a mill worker -- he's got all the attributes of a regular Southern guy. And I bet he's going to have a strong support from African-Americans. That's just a hunch. ... It's a comfort factor with a guy who comes from that kind of working-class Southern background, who is very much a rural kid. Like a lot of African-Americans grew up in rural families in the South."
More Matthews: "Clearly by picking a Southerner, [Kerry] wants to compete in the South. He wants to try and get the get-able states -- the border states of Missouri, southern Ohio, which is very Southern in many ways, try to pick up those two states. ... Borderline states like Louisiana, which has a large Catholic population, is get-able. Arkansas is get-able, if the Clintons come back, especially if Bill Clinton comes back and campaigns very hard" (7/6).