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Dole's ad is so over the top that Hagan's people have sent her a cease and desist letter about it.
Basically, Dole is a bad senator who figured that her name recognition and NC's ruby red status in national politics would let her coast to victory until she decided to give up the seat. That's why, I expect, she was so much more involved in national GOP politics than in keeping the people happy back home.*
Now that Hagan's giving her a run for her money, she is running around like a chicken with her head cut off. She had NO IDEA that she might have to actually work to keep her seat.
*She should have paid more attention. Y'all know Jesse Helms as a national conservative figure. But in NC, he was known for his constituent services. Stories abound down here of people trying to get things done through some federal agency or other and spending weeks and months on letters and phone calls, until someone says "why don't you call Jesse?" and the problem is solved, like, that afternoon. People got used to that. And they don't like Senator Dole spending her time rubbing elbows with the national GOP and ignoring us little folk. She should have learned from the master.
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