The News & Observer published the following report in their “Under the Dome” section today:

Sen. Elizabeth Dole knows how Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton feels. Before the Wake County Republican Party’s annual Presidents Day Dinner in Raleigh this week, Dole was asked whether she sees any parallels between her failed 2000 bid for the Republican presidential nomination and Clinton’s current run for the Democratic nomination.

“I think that in terms of her husband’s participation, maybe he’d better draw back a little bit,” she told Dome, laughing. “I don’t think he’s been that helpful to her.”

Dole, who is running for re-election to the Senate seat she has held since 2002, said a Clinton nomination would help the GOP.

“I think that if Hillary Clinton is the nominee, it will draw out a lot of Republican voters in the state of North Carolina, no question about it,” she said.