The tight U.S. senate race in North Carolina between incumbent Republican Elizabeth Dole and Democrat Kay Hagan has intensified with a new ad that Dole is airing statewide, accusing her challenger of accepting campaign contributions from an atheist group.

Dole's campaign is hammering North Carolina State Senator Kay Hagan for attending a fundraiser on September 15, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the home of Woody Kaplan, an advisor to the Godless Americans Political Action Committee, a liberal Washington-based group whose goal is "mobilizing America's nonbelievers for political activism." Massachusetts Senator John Kerry also attended the event...