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Once A Stronghold For GOP, Miss. Now Seen As Opportunity For Dems
Wicker "doesn't have any exposure down this way," J. Allen Walters of Wiggins said after hearing Wicker speak at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Perkiston.
"Musgrove is known statewide," said Walters, a Republican whose son Nick was appointed by President Bush in 2001 to be state director of the Agriculture Department's Office of Rural Development. "I think the name recognition will just follow him. I don't know if Wicker can get out and meet everybody like Musgrove has."