? Elizabeth Dole’s campaign challenges the footage used in a Kay Hagan ad about gas prices. Washington Post reporter Anne Kornblut says that if she could cover just one Senate race to the exclusion of all others this year, she’d pick Hagan vs. Dole. The Wall Street Journal compiles the second-quarter fundraising totals in the key Senate races.
? Washington is sending Charlotte $18 million to help pay for planning an extension of the city’s first light-rail line. Transit booster Pat McCrory comments. He and Bev Perdue speak today before a N.C. broadcasters convention in Asheville.
? Libertarian candidates for governor and president might affect the outcome this year by drawing voters disproportionately from one major party, writes Freedom Newspapers columnist Barry Smith. But it’s also possible that many Libertarian voters wouldn’t otherwise have participated at all.
