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Southern Dems stump as ‘problem solvers’

As Democrats try to curtail GOP dominance in the South, the party's top recruits for 2014 elections are trying to sell themselves as problem solvers above Washington's partisan gridlock.

By Bill Barrow | Updated on September 04, 2013
South Carolina gubernatorial candidate, State Sen. Vincent Sheheen. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As Democrats try to curtail GOP dominance in the South, the party’s top recruits for 2014 elections are trying to sell themselves as problem solvers above Washington’s partisan gridlock.

They’re casting the Republicans’ anti-government mantra and emphasis on social issues like abortion and gay marriage as ideological obstacles to progress on “bread-and-butter” issues like public education, infrastructure and health care.

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