washingtonmonthly.com - 10/29/2008
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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...
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
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"There Is No God"
Eschaton —
Stay classy, Liddy.
Kay Hagan, Godless American (True Story- Ask Liddy Dole)
Balloon Juice —
Via the Washington Monthly, this Politico piece about an ad Liddy Dole cut accusing her opponent, Kay Hagan, of being a “godless American.” My favorite part is the voice impersonator at the end saying “there is no God.” ...
In The News
SteveAudio —
... McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents. Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."****** Sen. Elizabeth Dole's latest advertisement suggests her Democratic opponent, Kay Hagan, is a godless ...
In the season of loud bangs
The Sideshow —
... Liddy Dole puts out an ad falsely accusing her opponent of atheism, although Kay Hagan is a Sunday School teacher. Pretty rich coming from a Republican, a member of the party whose only god is money. ...
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NC-Sen: Two Very Different Polls
swingstateproject.com 10/30/2008 — Rasmussen (10/29, likely voters, 10/8 in parens):
Kay Hagan (D) : 52 (49)
Elizabeth Dole (R-inc) : 46 (44)
(MoE: ±4.0%)
Rasmussen looks very good for Kay Hagan in the North Carolina senate race: six is the biggest lead she's had in a Rasmussen ...
Hagan: 'Godless' ad out of bounds
projects.newsobserver.com 10/29/2008 —
Furious about a new political ad that suggests she's "godless," state Sen. Kay Hagan is seeking a cease-and-desist order from U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole's campaign. Hagan , a Democrat from Guilford County, and Dole , the Republican incumbent, ...
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