Jim Neal says he has an uphill battle for Senate.
With no name recognition and a nationally recognized incumbent in U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, the Chapel Hill investment banker says he'll have to spend the next year introducing himself to North Carolina voters.
He's going to start at this weekend's Vance-Aycock Dinner, where his campaign will host a hospitality suite. He's also got a Web site up and running.
Neal also plans to take the year off from work, as he did in 2004, when he worked as a fundraiser for the campaigns of Erskine Bowles, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark and U.S. Sen. John Kerry.
He hopes to tap into that network of national donors to offset Dole's campaign war chest. He noted that former Gov. Jim Hunt also got out-of-state money when he ran against U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms.
"I'm a fighter," he said. "I'm running this race to win."
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