North Carolina’s Republican senator Elizabeth Dole has been sinking in the polls for weeks but she thinks she’s found a way to revive her flagging campaign – by suggesting that Democratic challenger Kay Hagan doesn’t believe in God. Dole’s TV ad linking Hagan to the atheist group Godless Americans has shot to the top of the charts as the nastiest of the 2008 cycle.

Hagan is taking legal action to take the Godless ad off the air and she has released her own response to Dole’s attack. It seems that not only is she not Godless, Hagan has taught Sunday school.