Voters, church leader speak out against Dole's `godless' ad

[DogPoundPup]

Source: The State / McClatchey Newspaper

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan said she came to talk about issues, but it wasn't long after arriving at an early voting site in Charlotte that a few voters brought up what's become the focal point of the race - the "godless" ad that Sen. Elizabeth Dole is running against her.

"What a nasty campaign this has turned into at the last moment," Doug Gubbins, a retired computer programmer from Charlotte, said to Hagan as she worked the voting line at Marion Diehl Recreation Center.

As Carolina voters make their final decisions about who to vote for, the contest between Dole, the Republican incumbent, and Hagan, a Democratic state senator from Greensboro, brewed both on the airwaves and on the ground.

Dole began airing a second ad featuring a fundraiser for Hagan in Boston. The event, which was hosted by Democratic supporters, was held at the home of a man associated with the Godless Americans PAC, a group opposed to references to God in government.

In Dole's new ad, the announcer asks, "If Godless Americans threw a party in your honor, would you go?"

Hagan declined to talk about the ad war with reporters in Charlotte, except to say she would continue to pursue legal action. On Thursday, she initiated a lawsuit that claimed Dole's ad was false and defamatory.

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[Eric J in MN]

1. If Elizabeth Dole wins,

...the message it will send to politicians is that they have to research every person holding a fundraiser for them for controversial views before attending.

[LeftishBrit]

7. I hope she doesn't!

It would be great if the voters should send the clear message that being a complete slimeball doesn't always pay. Lee Atwater's success against Dukakis had some MOST unfortunate effects.

[rasputin1952]

2. I saw that ad on the news...pretty sleazy...

Just when you think you've hit the bottom of the sewer, seems like we could always count on the GOP to come up w/some way to dig a little deeper...x(

[tanyev]

3. Heck yeah, I'd go to a party that Godless Americans threw in my honor!

Stupid question.

[Chulanowa]

5. It's bound to be entertaining at the very least!

[xchrom]

4. recommend

[davidinalameda]

6. please let Dole lose

she's a joke; at least her husband was respectable, before he started doing Viagra ads at least