Cross-posted at Episcopal Cafe today: The Campaign for Senate in North Carolina is close, and Senator Dole has decided to win the race by making false allegations about her opponent's alleged atheism. Here is the ad that Dole has been running: The response by Kay Hagen, an elder at a local Presbyterian Church where she teaches Sunday school was quick, and effective: At least one analyst, J.P. Green, thinks that Dole just lost the election by resorting to this tactic: It appears that Sen. Liddy Dole (R-NC) has lost either her marbles or control of her campaign. Dole has unleashed a ridiculously bombastic ad that tries to slime her opponent, Kay Hagan as "Godless." Hagan has put in time as both a Sunday school teacher and church elder in a Greensboro Presbyterian church her family has attended for more than a century. . . . It's a huge blunder. No doubt Dole hopes to fire up her evangelical base for the home stretch. But Dole's absurd allegations are easily rebu...
