In this May 13, 2008 file photo, Rep.-elect Travis Childers, D-Miss. speaks on the campus of Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville, Miss. The political fortunes of Democrats down South once were so bad that people openly joked even Jesus Christ would lose by a double-digit margin if he ran for office on the party's ticket. It might be time to put that joke to rest. (AP Photo/Michael H. Miller, File)

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