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  Forget the South?
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Last EditedEddie  Jan 26, 2004 08:39am
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News DateMonday, January 26, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionFrontrunner Kerry Downplays Importance of Region Many Democrats See as Crucial

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is discounting notions that any Democratic candidate would have to appeal to Southern voters in order to win the presidency, calling such thinking a "mistake" during a speech at Dartmouth College.

Kerry's remarks Saturday were so starkly antithetical to how many southern Democrats feel their party should campaign for the presidency, that a former South Carolina state Democratic chairman told ABCNEWS that Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C., who endorsed Kerry last week, perhaps "ought to reconsider his endorsement."
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