tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/31/2008
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Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), who's trailing in the polls, is up with another nasty TV spot attacking her Dem opponent as a tool of "Godless Americans" and the atheist agenda -- in fact, Hagan is criticized for even going to a party with atheists:
"If Godless Americans threw a party ...
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
kayhagan.com - 10/30/2008
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kayhagan.com —
Download the lawsuit filing. GREENSBORO , NC- Kay
Hagan filed a lawsuit against Elizabeth Dole and the...
Elizabeth Dole Committee, Inc., after Dole declined to remove her new television ad, described by North Carolina newspapers as “indecent,” a “gross ...
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Kay Hagan for North Carolina » Kay Hagan Files Suit
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Elizabeth Dole Spits in North Carolinians’ Other Eye with Another “Godless” Ad
Firedoglake —
... -- Dole decided to return to the scene of the crime with another ad essentially restating the initial innuendo (video at right via TPM). ...
The So-Called Khalidi Controversy
Stubborn Facts —
... to say that Khalidi's views of Israel are not mine, and he is no doubt wrong on certain key issues, but based on what I've read, and I'm totally inclined to agree with this (excepting the racist code aspects), and call this whole story underhanded, and bogus. Khalidi may be wrong on the Israel issue, but unless I'm missing something, I've found nothing that justifies the attacks laid on him, and Obama. This is beyond the pale, if you ask me.
This seems to be a pattern...
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