Two weeks ago, the Politico (I know, I know) quoted a McCain aide who said Dole was toast. That was two weeks ago and things seem to be better for Republicans. Has her standing in the polls improved? What about Republican Senate and House members in general?

Erick, if you get a chance, I would love to see another post about the trends in the race. Is the tightening continuing? What about Wright? Anything would be appreciated. Thanks

I’ve seen a grand total of ONE (1) Hagan sign. We in the conservative base have our reasons for not being in love with Mrs. Dole, but she was one of the leading voices against the Grahamnesty bill last year. This could explain some less-than-happy feelings from the McCain camp.

I’m doing everything I can to convince people on the fence to back Mrs. Dole, and I’m fairly confident we’ll hold the seat in the end. North Carolina may go wobbly once in a while (see Edwards, John for reference) but we’ll stay red this year.

but there’s really nothing new about Democrats taking campaign funds from unscrupulous or foreign sources.

Hagan’s record of taxing and spending, and then taxing some more, speaks volumes here in North Carolina. We have the highest personal income tax rate in the Southeast, and our punitive gas tax should make every liberal proud.

I simply don’t understand why congressional Republicans won’t:

• Dump Freddie and Fannie’s failure where it belongs, squarely in the Democratic Party’s lap.
• Demand a federal investigation to look into the ties between Obama, Ayers, Acorn and congressional Democrats and their involvement in the current voter fraud scheme.
• Nationalize the election in a coordinated effort to retake the Congress.
• Put the Democratic Party, and every single Democratic candidate across the entire country, on the defensive for two solid weeks.

I will be sick if Dole goes down when she with Sununu where the first ones to call attention to what was happening at Fannie Mac when Schummer who has spent nearly 10 mill against Dole was one to stop it

If every single noble North Carolinian sent this to ten people. this race is ove by Wednesday. Game over, fibber Kay.

The woman featured in the video as head of the Godless America PAC is Ellen Johnson. I know her because she was also President of American Atheists. She invited me to speak as part of a debate at the American Atheists convention in Minneapolis last March.

I am an atheist. Yes, conservative atheists do exist. There are actually quite a few of us hiding “in the closet”. You don’t need to be religious to know that socialism is a really bad idea.

As the token conservative, my task was to argue that your political philosophy does not have to be determined by your position on issues of faith.

In other words, stop being liberal jerks.

I did persuade about a dozen. The rest of the thousand people in the hall were about as moderate as William Ayres and as rational as Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Advocating equal treatment for atheists is fine. We elect Christians, Jews, Mormons, even a few Muslims to Congress. It would be nice not to be disqualified from public office because of my religious beliefs, but demanding “In God We Trust” be removed from the currency and Christmas be eliminated as a holiday just reinforces the public perception that being an atheist is the same as being an arrogant liberal jerk.

So, as much as people of faith may find Godless America PAC offensive, they offend me even more. Because of people like them, I’m embarrassed to tell people I’m an atheist.

… since when is being an atheist a bad thing?

We make up something like 15% of the population and it’s even higher (think 30-35%) among young people. That’s a bigger proportion than African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Jews, Muslims, gays, and just about any other group in America.

I don’t mean so sound like a troll but is bigotry against such a large group of people a great electoral strategy?