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The hottest Senate race in the country is getting a whole lot hotter due to multiple lawsuits alleging that an associate of Sen. Norm Coleman, Nasser Kazeminy, funneled money to Coleman’s wife through an insurance company she works for. The allegations spurred the Coleman campaign to cry foul and attack Al Franken in an ad [...]

Before Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Oct. 17 statements on MSNBC about “anti-America views” she feared some in Congress hold, the airwaves in the 6th Congressional District were relatively quiet. But over the past two weeks well over $1 million in campaign contributions from people outraged by her comments have poured into the campaign of DFLer El [...]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is putting up a new television spot in the 6th Congressional District attacking Rep. Michele Bachmann on the economy.

Meanwhile, Bachmann’s ad attacking Democratic challenger El Tinklenberg gets panned by Minnesota Public Radio’s Tim Pugmire who says, the “Facts don’t support Bachmann ad claims.”
“One of the latest twists in the too-close-to-call [...]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched new ads in the 6th Congressional district as promised, but, like Democratic candidate El Tinklenberg, they avoid mentioning Rep. Michele Bachmann’s gaffe that brought money and attention to the race in the first place.
The DCCC’s new ad targets Bachmann’s statements concerning the collapse of U.S. financial markets. The [...]

U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., came to the Twin Cities today to support DFL congressional candidate Ashwin Madia in his bid to replace retiring Republican 3rd District U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad. Emanuel lavished praise on Madia as the sort of practical politician who would be welcomed in the House Democratic caucus, which Emanuel leads. Both are sons of immigrants, with names that not everyone can spell, who in the course of their congressional campaigns have been called “carpetbagger.” In a separate press conference across town today, Ramstad himself assailed Madia and Democratic groups supporting him for engaging in “gutter politics.”

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The National Republican Congressional Committee has scaled back its TV ad buys in the Twin Cities metro for Republican Erik Paulsen, who is running in a tight race with DFLer Ashwin Madia, MPR’s Polinaut reports. At the same time, the NRCC is buying ads for Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann who faces a challenge from Elwyn Tinklenberg.

MoveOn’s celebrity jury has picked a winner in the organization’s public contest to create a 30-second ad for Barack Obama, and it’s a testimonial from an Air Force and self-proclaimed Republican named John Weiler. According to MSNBC’s First Read, MoveOn will drop $200k on airing the spot via cable and broadcast channels in Ohio, Wisconsin, [...]

In what has become an obligatory bit of choreography on the eve of a primary, the Clinton campaign on Monday released a new attack ad going after Barack Obama’s opposition to a gas-tax holiday. The Obama campaign fired right back with a she’ll-say-anything spot that doesn’t mention the gas tax but quotes the New York [...]

The Republican National Committee is leaning on the TV networks to refuse to air the anti-John McCain spot made by its counterparts at the DNC and released over the weekend. (We posted the :30 ad here.) The RNC is thereby trying to take out of play once and for all McCain’s repeated claims that he [...]

The Democratic National Committee released a new anti-McCain spot over the weekend, culled from the January forum where he uttered the best-known — but hardly the only — version of his “100 years in Iraq” fantasy. The Washington Post’s Channel ‘08 blog reports that it will run mainly on the cable news channels. (Below the [...]