Opinion: Rev. Wright trumped in North Carolina?

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Another ad is making a splash in North Carolina (though perhaps mainly among aging baby boomers there).

Beverly Perdue -- one of the two Democratic gubernatorial candidates who, in the political equivalent of a carom shot, state Republican officials are trying to link to Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- is up with an ad in which she’s endorsed by Andy Griffith (a native of Mount Airy, N.C.).

‘Oh, you’re going to be a goooood governor,’ Griffith says to Perdue in the spot, and anyone who grew up watching him keep law and order (and raise Opie) in Mayberry, N.C., won’t have to actually see it to know exactly how that line sounds.

As detailed in this story in the Raleigh News & Observer, a Griffith endorsement is nothing to scoff at in his home state. And for more on the hard-fought battle for the Democratic gubernatorial battle -- and Barack Obama’s role in it -- go here.

-- Don Frederick