north dakota

The Republican National Committee’s new ad — running in Arkansas, Nevada, and North Dakota — isn’t all that subtle. The Freudian takeaway words and images: Children, debt, “risky experiments.”
Why those three states? There are three Senate races between them in 2010.

Manu Raju writes up Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.)’s skepticism of some Obama initiatives as proof that he’s becoming the president’s “Dem foe,” and offers one reason why:
The Democratic senator is up for reelection in 2010 in deeply red North Dakota, and the state’s Republican Party is eager to tie him tightly to the most liberal [...]

The Obama campaign announced Friday morning that it is investing new resources for a TV blitz deep in Republican territory, running new ads in North Dakota, Georgia  and Sen. John McCain’s home state of Arizona.
The announcement is either a small-buy head fake, which could stoke heady press coverage of the campaign’s offense in the closing [...]