Most interesting factoid: Northup didn't sign the League of Women Voters "Clean Campaign" pledge. One could assume she didn't sign the pledge because she's ready to level some personal attacks on Yarmuth. The tag line on a couple of her ads questioning Yarmuth's ability to tell the truth comes close.

The only obvious untrue claim in any ad I've heard or seen wasn't even directed at an opposing candidate. That's good. It was in an Anne Northup radio ad, talking about John Yarmuth's position on the East End bridge. Northup's ad says "ground has been broken" on the east end bridge. Not true. The dog and pony groundbreaking show that was held one month ago behind a fire station in Prospect actually signified groundbreaking on the rerouting of the Snyder Expressway/U.S. 42 interchange. The Federal Highway Administrator at the event admitted the work that was beginning was not included in the bridge design or any other part of the east end bridge project. It was just a good show a few weeks before election time so Northup, Abramson and Fletcher could say work on the bridge had begun. It hasn't.

Northup's :60 feel good TV ad is good, as usual. So is Yarmuth's where he doesn't pick on Northup specifically but hits the top issue in Louisville this fall, the civil war the U.S. is trying to mediate in Iraq.

Northup's ad comparing Yarmuth's past and present statements and stands on the bridge, Medicare and other issues is a good one. Those old LEO columns will kill Yarmuth.

Mike Sodrel's ad telling voters that Baron Hill stayed in Washington after his 2004 election loss is a good one. It denies Hill the opportunity to call Sodrel a Washington insider. If Hill doesn't call Sodrel a George W. Bush "lapdog" he's crazy though polling in Southern Indiana shows the President a little stronger there than in Louisville. Hill's counterpunch at Sodrel's signing of the "Clean Campaign" pledge and lying to a minister is good, but it's a stretch. As I understand it, the group that sponsored that pledge was made up of a few ministers as well as other community leaders.

Those are my thoughts. If you disagree, write your own analysis. If they're inaccurate, write your corrections. I'll post them. And if you see a blatantly false ad, write about it here. Mark