Gary Boisclair, a challenger to U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, has purchased airtime on KARE-TV and other Twin Cities television stations this week to air three extremely graphic anti-abortion ads. In one of the ads, the self-proclaimed Democrat says in a voiceover, "Who would do this? Who would kill an unborn baby? Congressman Keith Ellison for one."

Fields humbly accepted the GOP endorsement and will now look to challenge incumbent Rep. Ellison for his congressional seat. Ellison has represented Minnesota's Fifth District since 2007.

A Duluth television station is dropping a DFL ad that claims Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack no longer lives in Minnesota. WDIO-TV sales director Debra Messer says the decision came after Cravaack's campaign called the ad "misleading" and "defamatory."

Republican candidate Chris Fields wants to make this fall's election a referendum on race, the Star Tribune reports. Both he and 5th District Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., are black. Fields says Ellison has failed his black constituents, which Ellison strongly denies. "I'm fighting for the whole district," the third-term incumbent says.

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., sat down for a chat with comedian Stephen Colbert on "The Colbert Report" and they chatted over allegations made by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., that he is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. They also role-played what might happen if Mitt Romney called and asked Ellison to be his running mate.

Hopkins Patch says Gary Boisclair will run against three-term Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) and challenge the congressman's religious tolerance with graphic television ads

Republican Mitt Romney will begin running TV ads in Minnesota this weekend, with just over a week to go before the election, the Associated Press reports. Recent polls showed President Barack Obama with a solid lead in the state that has not voted for a Republican president since Richard Nixon in 1972.

Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison told a Senate panel looking into racial profiling that the practice is not only discriminatory, it also wastes law enforcement resources. Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, cited the New York Police Department's monitoring of Muslim university students as an example. The hearing was inspired by the Trayvon Martin case.