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ATLANTA In a closing-stretch push for all-out victory, Republican Senate candidate David Perdue brought in the big guns over the weekend. Party powerhouses Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul rallied small-town crowds to get behind the former CEO of Reebok and Dollar General and send him to Washington.

I can think of only a few businessmen that we have, Paul told the crowd at a town square rally in McDonough, just south of Atlanta. And I think it would be great to have someone with some common sense with some business sense to create jobs.

Job creation is the centerpiece of Perdues message to Georgia voters. As CEO of Dollar General, Perdue led a massive expansion of the company, creating 20,000 jobs in the process.

The number one thing that we need to be talking about is whos going to go to the Senate and add value to the debate of how to get the economy going to get people back to work again right here in Georgia, Perdue told Fox News.

The race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss is surprisingly competitive discomfortingly so for Republicans. What should have been a sure thing is now neck-and-neck, with Perdue locked in a dead heat against Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn.

Nunn is the daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn, who served 24 years in the Senate at a time the deep South was deep blue.She is also the CEO (on leave of absence) for George H.W. Bushs Points of Light Foundation putting a foot in both the Democratic and Republican camps. In fact, Nunn is running her campaign more like a Republicrat a person who talks like a Republican, but whose blood runs Democratic blue.

"There are lots of things I agree with the president on and there are lots of things I disagree with the president on," Nunn told the audience at a debate Sunday night. Where does she disagree? She believes the president should approve the Keystone pipeline; thinks he has made irresponsible cuts to the military; and thinks he needs to do more to work with Congress and tackle the debt. But she agrees with him on key issues like an increase in the minimum wage as well as the mother of all campaign issues, ObamaCare.

Thats the ground Perdue is tilling in the closing days of the race as he makes the case that a vote for Nunn would be a rubber stamp for the presidents policies.

He has said that his issues his policies are on the ballot this time in this Senate race, Perdue told Fox News aboard his campaign motorhome. And this week he said you need to elect Michelle Nunn in Georgia to continue his policies. And I would argue those policies are failing by any measure.

Perdue also is warning voters that should she win, the first vote Michelle Nunn will cast will be to reinstate Harry Reid as majority leader. But at Sundays debate, she indicated her vote is not a lock.

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Republican battles to stave off Democratic rival in tight Georgia Senate race

A Republican candidate for state Senate in Washington is being attacked anonymously for his Catholic views through a cartoonish flier that says he has always worn his church on his sleeve and has best represented the people of the Vatican.

Its one of several over-the-top rhetorical attacks that pop up in the last weeks of election season, when identity politics and national security scares are pitched to a polarized electorate.

In the South, race-based appeals are popular ways to rally black voters, while Republicans tie opponents to terrorists.

In Washington state, the anti-Catholic ad targets Mark Miloscia, a Democrat turned Republican. It portrays the former state representative from Federal Way wearing a rosary and popes miter and carrying a briefcase adorned with the Mississippi state flag.

Republican Mark Miloscia came from the Deep South with plenty of baggage, the flier reads. Mississippi Mark has always worn his church on his sleeve. Rather than represent the people of Federal Way, he has best represented the people of The Vatican.

Using crucifixes as a substitute for bullet points, the flier accuses Mr. Miloscia of being a Lobbyist for the Catholic Church.

Mr. Miloscia, who was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, has lobbied for the Washington State Catholic Conference.

Keith Schipper, campaign manager for Mr. Miloscia, denounced the flier and said he is frustrated that the final stretch of the campaign is being devoted to scaremongering rather than the issues.

Theyre doing their best to try to do some Vatican scaremongering to try to suppress the Miloscia vote, he said.

The campaign of Democrat Shari Song, Mr. Miloscias opponent, said the attack has no place in the campaign and has asked for it to be pulled.

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Republicans are aiming to deal Democrats a decisive blow in the closing days of the campaign for control of the U.S. Senate by pouring millions of dollars into three states -- Colorado, Iowa and North Carolina -- that favor Democrats.

These states are the Democratic firewall, says Jennifer Duffy, a Senate analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report in Washington. Theyve got to win most if not all of those.

Democrats are responding to the advertising blitz with spending of their own, aiming to win over voters that are more closely aligned with their party than in most of the other competitive states.

American Crossroads, which backs Republicans, boosted this months advertising in Iowa and Colorado, both of which President Barack Obama carried in 2008 and 2012. Since Oct. 14, Crossroads, co-founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, has spent $1.2 million on ads in Iowa and $3.5 million in Colorado.

The Democratic Partys senatorial campaign committee said it will spend the most on the three states in the home stretch before the Nov. 4 election. Both parties have reserved extensive air time for ads in North Carolina.

That continues a pattern in which independent groups have spent at least $10 million more in Iowa, Colorado and North Carolina during this election than anywhere else. At least 10 states are seen as battlegrounds in the fight to win the Senate majority.

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Election-Cash Blitz Aims at 3 States With Senate At Stake

The Republican Party has proven this election that President Obama was correct when he didnt automatically support the recommendations of the two chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which is much better known as the Bowles-Simpson (or as I typically call it, the B-S) commission.

First, some quick background.

I was one of the biggest critics of the B-S commission when I was blogging at Capital Gains and Games.

I said the recommendations by the commissions two chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson were completely unworkable and politically unacceptable. I said the commissions process, which attempted to take the politics out of the inherently political issue of deficit reduction, couldnt possibly succeed.

I was extremely critical of the attempts by Bowles and Simpson to claim that they and the commission had succeeded even though their proposal didnt get the required number of votes to be approved. In fact, there was no formal vote on their proposal when it became clear it didnt have enough support to move forward.

I also was furious that Bowles and Simpson kept referring to their recommendations as the commissions report even though there was no report, and that the two co-chairs reportedly were receiving $40,000 each in speaking fees to talk to various groups about what they were doing.

But all these were basically small issues compared to the biggest arguments I had about the B-S commission: President Obamas refusal to embrace what Bowles and Simpson recommended.

The presidents detractors insisted that he was bound to accept what was recommended because the commission was created by an executive order he issued. I had three points in response.

First, the fact that it was a presidential commission didnt mean the White House was bound by it any more than a congressionally committee would have bound Congress. The president deserved credit for creating the deficit commission that Congress was unwilling to do, but he never agreed to follow what was recommended. In fact, the procedure outlined in the executive order was that a formal recommendation would be sent to Congress and would only go to the president if the House and Senate approved it. He had no obligation to support it first.

Second, the commission never actually recommended anything so there was nothing for the president to embrace. As noted above, B-S failed to get the number of votes required by the executive order and so in fact failed to make any recommendation. Third, given the Republican opposition to the tax increases and mandatory program reductions recommended by the two co-chairs (it was a lack of GOP support that prevented the plan from getting the supermajority it needed to be sent to Congress), it would have been political suicide for the president to accept the proposal unilaterally.

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