While it does not mention U.S. Senate opponents Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist, the ad attempts to draw policy contrasts, some of which (pro-choice) are not as clear given Crist's propensity to shift. It will run in Tampa Bay, Orlando, Palm Beach, Broward-Miami, Jacksonville and Gainesville.

The answer is no.

"Voters can make up their own minds," the Louisiana governor told local television station WDSU.

Jindal added he doesn't like to get involved in federal races, though the station reports he has backed federal-office seekers in the past.

Nearly two weeks removed from Murkowski's stunning defeat by little-known attorney Joe Miller in the Republican Senate primary in Alaska, establishment GOPers are nervous of a repeat in Delaware, where Castle faces 2008 Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell in the Sept. 14 primary.

Castle'…

It took only a single term for Roy Blunt to become more than just a congressman from small-town Missouri.

Just that quickly, the former history teacher — born in Niangua, population 494 — was on his way to becoming the consummate Washington insider.

A decade later, he’s the Re…