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Sen. Aiken

Should I run for senate?!? HA HA

from my local paper, The [Raleigh] News & Observer:

“Dems reaching for Dole rival

A Democratic pollster says his firm decided to see how the state Democratic Party chairman would fare in a race for U.S. Senate because the firm was out of ideas.

Justin Guillory, who works for Public Policy Polling, said the firm ran Jerry Meek’s name against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole because there weren’t any other people left.

“We tried all the candidates who have been mentioned,” he said.

Still, Guillory said that people at the firm had heard Meek’s name floated as a possible candidate for higher office some day.

On his blog, Guillory says he hopes to try some real names soon: “Hopefully some Democrat will step up to the plate soon and we can end this exercise. Otherwise, we may have to resort, as one person suggested, to testing Clay Aiken against Elizabeth Dole.”