americablog.com - 10/30/2008
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This is how a nimble campaign works. Yesterday we talked about the vile new ad that Elizabeth Dole has out against Kay Kagan. Today, the Hagan campaign released this ad: Kay Hagan is right - "bearing false witness against fellow Christians" isn't very Christian. If you're going to call ...
charlotteobserver.com - 10/30/2008
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charlotteobserver.com —
North Carolina knows from sad experience about negative
election campaigns and misleading, untruthful advertising. In the 1950
campaign, opponents of the late UNC President Frank Porter Graham used a doctored photo of his wife with a black man to ...
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Dole's desperate turn to Big Lie advertising
washingtonmonthly.com - 10/29/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE WEAK GET
RIDICULOUS.... Recent polling shows Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R) trailing
in her re-election fight in North Carolina against Democrat Kay Hagan, so it stands to reason that she's getting a little desperate. I...
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When the going gets tough, the weak get ridiculous
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Bearing False Witness
Eschaton —
I was hoping this Hagan ad would go there. And then it did!
DAY'S END ROUNDUP
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... declares. Democrat Kay Hagan, meanwhile, has impressed AMERICAblog's Robert Arena with an ad hitting back at her opponent, incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), for an ad that sought to link Hagan to an atheist group. Hagan accuses Dole of "bearing false witness against fellow Christians," and Arena congratulates her for fighting fire with fire in the strongly worded response. FROM THE BLOGS: ...
Ugliest Republican of the Day II: Elizabeth Dole
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... egregious, shameful mistake and acts appropriately, Elizabeth Dole has no place in N.C. politics, either Very well editorialized. But I'd say she has no place in the Senate regardless. All this ad does is confirm what a desperate and vicious woman she has become. Let's hope the voters of North Carolina have finally moved past the divisive politics of Jesse Helms and reject Dole decisively on Tuesday. (From AMERICAblog: "Hagan hits back on Dole." Effectively, I might add.)
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