After pouring over $100,000 of his own money into his campaign, Jim Neal only took second place in this year's primary for the Democratic nomination to challenge North Carolina's Republican U.S. Senator Elizabeth "Liddy" Dole. Yet he's amazingly calm and upbeat.

"I am in anything but depression," Neal told me in a recent phone interview. "I was passionate about what I was doing, and I continue to be passionate about the issues that drove me to run."

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