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...started shouting questions about whether Allen spit on his first wife, a charge that has appeared on Internet blogs but is totally unproven. Allen campaign officials grabbed the man, knocked him to the ground and dragged him out of the event, leading Stark - who aides to Democratic challenger Jim Webb say has no affiliation with the campaign - to e-mail dozens of Washington reporters about the incident and threaten to sue Allen campaign officials...
...what has become both the ugliest, and perhaps most critical, Senate contest in the country. This race was supposed to be a debate about one of the defining issues of the campaign, Iraq - between Allen, a strong defender of the war and once potential 2008 G.O.P. presidential nominee, and Webb, the former Navy secretary who became a Democrat in part because of his objections to the war. The race, which is now effectively tied after Allen had been leading slightly, could determine which party controls the Senate next year...
...Instead, it's been about Allen's use of the derogatory term "macaca" to describe a South Asian Webb supporter who attended an Allen campaign event; his alleged use of racial slurs in the 1970s; the Jewish roots of his mother; and "a horny woman's dream," the term Webb used to describe the dorms at the U.S Naval Academy in a 1979 article arguing against allowing women into combat. And lately it has degenerated further, if that's possible, into nasty charges about passionate prose and alleged arrests. Last week Republicans started attacking the war novels Webb has written...
...dirt that has been thrown around, both candidates are trying to get voters to focus on the positive parts of their biographies. Allen started running an ad talking about his service as both governor and senator in the state and his support for lower taxes, while new Webb spots talk about his war service and his support of increased funding for health care. One of the Democratic Party's brightest stars, Barack Obama, is campaigning for Webb this week; so is actor Michael J. Fox, who is supporting Democratic candidates in key races who back expanding stem cell research. Allen...
...Both Allen and Webb need to get major turnout here. Webb hopes to accumulate enough votes to make up for a deficit in the southern and more conservative parts of the state, while Allen needs to hold down his margin of defeat in the north while getting the bulk of voters in the southern part of the state. Whoever wins can only hope the Senate turns out to be a lot less colorful...