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One of the most passionately fought campaigns of this year’s primary season is the slugfest between former federal prosecutor George Holding and Wake County Commissioner Paul Coble, who are vying for a seat in Congress.

The race has produced North Carolina's first super PAC. It ranks No. 9 as the most active super PAC playing in a congressional race in the nation. And like other super PACs in this new world, how The American Foundations Committee is permitted to operate is somewhat controversial and sometimes unclear. Click here to read more, see a list of donors and get a primer on super PAC rules.

To get your political fill, here are more big headlines from this weekend:

--Newt Gingrich tries to keep GOP race alive. In stumping across the state, Gingrich mainly ignored Romney, but stepped up his criticism of Obama, describing him as "a Chicago-machine politician dedicated to Saul Alinsky’s radicalism." Here's a dispatch from his statewide tour, including stops at a tea party rally in Greensboro and Raleigh. He also visited the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte.

GOP House candidate Paul Coble today made the Super Pac formed by one of his opponents, George Holding an issue in the 13th congressional race, claiming that it would allow “massive and possibly unaccountable special interest money” to influence the GOP primary.

Coble, the Wake County commissioners chairman and former Raleigh mayor, said the Super PAC formed by allies of Holding, a former U.S. attorney, could allow hundreds of thousands of dollars of unreported money to pay for TV ads. He also raised the question of whether there was inappropriate coordination between the Holding campaign and the Super PAC.

“Something smells rotten in the George Holding campaign,” Coble said at a news conference at his campaign headquarters on Barrett Drive. He also was to begin a radio ad stressing the same theme.