by Evie Stone

A bit of ill timing today in North Carolina, where Republican Senator Liddy Dole has tried to paint her Democratic challenger Kay Hagan as "Godless"...Hagan's election night event tomorrow will be held at the Greensboro Coliseum. The venue's headliners tonight: industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.

Our Sean Bowditch reports that the spike-clad goth punks are already lining up outside the Coliseum. But before you start cooking up elaborate theories about coordination between the Hagan forces and the wraiths of NIN, Sean provides evidence that any contact thusfar has been incidental: he overheard a Hagan staffer referring to the band as the (somewhat less threatening) "five inch nails."