>>There has been a lot of coverage of that race. Santorum has already gone nasty, with the election over three months away. That makes me nervous. There is a reason the Republicans' first instinct when in trouble is to sling mud -- it has worked so many times.
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>Hardly limited to Repubs. You should've seen the Dem primary for governor out here.

Are they doing that race baiting push polling thing that Bushs' people did to McCain in South Carolina in 2000 where they asked voters if they would support McCain if he had an interracial daughter with a black woman, even though McCain had an adopted daughter from Bangladesh?

Or are they doing that phone jamming thing like those Republicans that went to jail for the 2002 New Hampshire Senate election where the state's Republican Party hired a firm to do some phone jamming of the Dem's and firefighter's union phone banks?

Here's a fun fact on the latter that i didnt know about....

A Democratic analysis of phone records introduced at Tobin's criminal trial show he made 115 outgoing calls to the White House between September 17 and November 22, 2002. [21] Two dozen of the calls were made from 9:28 a.m. the day before the election through 2:17 a.m. the night after the voting, a three-day period during which the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out, and then abruptly shut down.

Virtually all the calls to the White House went to the same number, which currently rings inside the political affairs office. In 2002, that office was headed by Ken Mehlman, now the chair of the Republican National Committee. The White House has declined to say which staffer was assigned that phone number in 2002.